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    33== 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. 
     5Deluge is a full-featured [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent BitTorrent] client for Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows. It uses [http://www.libtorrent.org/ libtorrent] in it's backend and features multiple user-interfaces including: GTK+, web and console. It has been designed using the client server model with a daemon process that handles all the bittorrent activity.  The Deluge daemon is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces being able to connect remotely from any platform. 
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    77Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge's functionality is available in the form of plugins. 
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    99Deluge 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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     11Deluge is not designed for any one desktop environment and will work just fine in GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others.  We do our best to adhere to the [http://freedesktop.org freedesktop] standards. 
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    1413Deluge 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. 
     15== Who made Deluge? == 
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     17The Deluge Team consists of Andrew Resch, Damien Churchill and John Garland. Previous developers and contributors include Zach Tibbitts, Alon Zakai, Marcos Pinto, Martijn Voncken, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Alex Dedul, Ido Abramovich. 
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     19The [http://www.libtorrent.org libtorrent] library is a huge part of Deluge and is developed by Arvid Norberg. 
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    1821== What about features? == 
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    2023Deluge has a wide-array of features, including: 
     24 * Core/UI split allowing Deluge to run as a daemon 
     25 * Connect remotely to the Deluge daemon 
    2126 * Web UI 
     27 * Console UI 
     28 * GTK+ UI 
    2229 * !BitTorrent Protocol Encryption 
    2330 * Mainline DHT 
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    2734 * UPnP and NAT-PMP 
    2835 * Proxy support 
    29  * ~~Web seed~~ 
     36 * Web seed 
    3037 * Private Torrents 
    3138 * Global and per-torrent speed limits 
    32  * ~~Configurable bandwidth scheduler~~ 
     39 * Configurable bandwidth scheduler 
    3340 * Password protection 
    3441 * ~~RSS~~ 
     42 * Other [http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/features.html libtorrent features] 
    3543 * And much more! 
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