Transmission on Mac OS X |
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| Developer(s) | Jordan Lee (Daemon, Backend, GTK+ client), Mitchell Livingston (Mac OS X client) |
| Initial release | 17 September 2005 |
| Stable release | 2.42 (19 October 2011)[1] [±] |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like (Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD) |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | BitTorrent |
| License | GNU GPL / MIT |
| Website | http://www.transmissionbt.com/ |
Transmission is a BitTorrent client which features a simple interface on top of a cross-platform back-end. Transmission is free software[2] licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), with parts under the MIT License.
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Transmission allows users to download files from the Internet and upload their own files or torrents. By grabbing items and adding them to the interface, users can create queues of files to be downloaded and uploaded. Within the file selection menus, users can customise their downloads down to components of individual files. Transmission also seeds—that is, it can re-upload downloaded content.
Mac OS X specific features include:
Transmission 1.60 and later removed support for Mac OS X v10.4. Currently, Transmission 1.54 is the last version that runs on Mac OS X 10.4. Starting with Transmission 2.30[13] an Apple Mac with an Intel CPU is needed; PowerPC-based systems are no longer supported natively.
The Transmission back-end (libTransmission) also serves as the basis of the Transmission daemon. The daemon supports a web front-end called Clutch. Older versions have been ported to form the basis of the update system for the video game Metal Gear Online on PS3,[14] as well as the backend for ImageShack's BitTorrent service.
There are several transmission clients for different operating systems including Linux and Unix-like, Mac OS X and BeOS/ZETA; each operating system front-end is built using native widget toolkits.[2]
An unofficial port of Transmission using a command-line interface (CLI) on the iOS was accomplished on March 3, 2008.[15] In November 2010, iTransmission, another unofficial port, was released for jailbroken iPhones sporting a GUI that is capable of downloading directly to the device over WiFi or 3G.[16] A Transmission remote was released for Android, with the name of Transdroid but does not currently support downloading directly to devices.
On Windows, Transmission-Qt can be built with MinGW,[17] the daemon and console tools can be built with Cygwin,[18] also there are two third-party GUIs: Transmission Remote Dot Net[19] and transmission-remote-gui,[20] as well as unofficial full builds of Transmission's Qt Client.[21], [22]
It is also ported to the Maemo OS of the Nokia N810 and N900 Internet tablets on which it does download the torrents to the device.
Transmission is the default BitTorrent client of many Unix and Linux distributions, including Joli OS, Solaris,[23] Ubuntu,[24] Mandriva,[25] Mint,[26] Fedora,[27] Puppy,[28] CrunchBang,[29] Zenwalk,[30] and the GNOME flavor of openSUSE.[31]
On Mac OS X, it is the most popular BitTorrent client downloaded from Mac software websites MacUpdate and VersionTracker.
Fonera ships its routers with Transmission pre-installed.[32]
CNET editor Paul Huges praised Transmission for its "simplicity, lightweight, as well as being feature-packed" and the software is currently ranked second in P2P downloads for Mac on CNET.[33]
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