So, the last couple days I’ve been playing with the latest release of my former project, Deluge. With version 0.6 comes support for a client/server mode of operation, meaning the downloading can run on a different computer as the user interface.
For those of you running Ubuntu, you can get up to date SVN builds of Deluge 0.6 from my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~zachtib/+archive. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait for an official RC release or build it yourself from source.
Several things have changed since the 0.5 days. First off, 0.6 is a complete rewrite. It uses XMLRPC to communicate between the client and server, which allows it to run on separate computers. Today I tested this using VMware and ran the front and backend on separate virtual machines.
The user interface has also been completely overhauled. Personally, I think it now looks a lot more like uTorrent with the Labels pane on the left hand side. In addition, the preferences dialog has been redesigned as well.
For those that don’t have a need for a separate frontend and backend, a “Classic” mode is available in the preferences dialog that will emulate the old method by automatically starting and stopping the backend with the client.
I’m very happy with the direction the client is going, and plan on using it for the forseeable future.
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