| | 1 | = About = |
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| | 3 | == What is Deluge? == |
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| | 5 | Deluge is a full-featured [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent BitTorrent] client for Linux, Unix and Windows. It uses [http://www.libtorrent.org/ libtorrent] in it's backend and [http://www.pygtk.org/ PyGTK] for it's user interface. |
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| | 7 | Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge's functionality is available in the form of plugins. |
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| | 9 | Deluge was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. It is our belief that downloading shouldn't be the primary task on your computer and therefore shouldn't monopolize system resources. |
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| | 11 | Deluge is not designed for any one desktop environment and will work just fine in GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others. |
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| | 14 | Deluge is [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free Software] and is licensed under the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt GNU General Public License]. |
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| | 16 | The Deluge Team consists of Marcos Pinto, Andrew Resch, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, and Martijn Voncken. Previous developers include Zach Tibbitts and Alon Zakai. |
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| | 18 | == What about features? == |
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| | 20 | Deluge has a wide-array of features, including: |
| | 21 | * Web UI |
| | 22 | * !BitTorrent Protocol Encryption |
| | 23 | * Mainline DHT |
| | 24 | * Local Peer Discovery (aka LSD) |
| | 25 | * FAST protocol extension |
| | 26 | * µTorrent Peer Exchange |
| | 27 | * UPnP and NAT-PMP |
| | 28 | * Proxy support |
| | 29 | * ~~Web seed~~ |
| | 30 | * Private Torrents |
| | 31 | * Global and per-torrent speed limits |
| | 32 | * ~~Configurable bandwidth scheduler~~ |
| | 33 | * Password protection |
| | 34 | * ~~RSS~~ |
| | 35 | * And much more! |
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| | 37 | ['Download'] the latest release and give it a try! |
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