Deluge is light weight BitTorrent client for Windows, Linux, and Mac. The makers of Deluge realize that you use your computer for much more than just downloading. Therefore, why should you use a BitTorrent client that is so system intensive you can’t use your computer for anything else? The answer is you shouldn’t. To fix this they created Deluge.

What I love the most about Deluge is that it is simple and easy to use. The first time you run the program it will guide you through a short configuration of the preferences. If you aren’t sure what one of the preferences means, simply hover your mouse over that setting and a dialog box will appear giving more information. There aren’t that many settings compared to similar programs. This is one of the reasons Deluge is so light weight. However, to me it seems Deluge included the settings we use the most, like download/upload limits. For those of you who are worried about security, encryption is built into Deluge.

Just because Deluge is small, light weight, and unobtrusive doesn’t mean that it can’t do everything those other BitTorrent clients can. In fact, the great thing about Deluge is that all those extra features are available through plugins. Now I know you may be thinking, but I don’t want to download a plugin every time I need to add functionality to Deluge. Well guess what, you don’t; all the plugins for Deluge are available in the preferences menu. To enable a new plugin, you simply place a check mark next to the plugin you wish to activate.

For Linux, Deluge was designed to work with any distribution as well just about any desktop environment including GNOME, KDE, and XFCE. As stated above, Deluge is also available for Windows and Mac OS X as well. To get your copy of Deluge, please visit their download page. There you will find Deluge available in packages for your favorite distribution, as well as the source code.

If you would like to learn a little more about Deluge, be sure to check out their about page, as well as Wikipedia’s page on Deluge.

Images were taken from the following places respectively:

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