I’m spinning up a new seedbox and wanted to know what is everyone using nowadays? I was using deluge via the thick client and rutorrent previously. Are they still king? edit: I should have also mentioned that I plan on running this server headless so I will need to be able to access it via a thin client or a web browser
Transmission is my favorite design-wise on macOS but I wish it had i2p support.
I never even realized that Transmission doesn’t support it. I just have I2P set up on my seedbox (but it typically requires root access, so unfortunately not everyone can replicate this). I would imagine it’s pretty flaky on macOS though? I’m pretty sure the vast majority of I2P users run Linux, so the macOS client probably doesn’t get as much development and attention.
I don’t know why i2p would be flaky on macOS. I run i2pd (hate Java) on Linux and macOS and it’s functionally the same.
That was just my assumption, because the modern macOS network stack is not exactly similar to Linux, so some changes would be required, and since it’s not that widely used (at least in the I2P community) it wouldn’t get tested and developed that much. But again, that was just my assumption.
As a former Java dev: Completely understandable. i2pd is the only I2P implementation I will ever touch, the Java client is just a buggy mess with bad performance.
A lot of the macOS networking stack (at a lower level) comes from FreeBSD. People have argued that the BSD network stack is superior to Linux whereas Linux runs applications faster. At a low level, I think this is still accurate.
I’m a Ruby developer but I tried to port a Linux application written in C to macOS before and it was mostly rearranging positional arguments to system API calls; however there’s probably a lot more going on that I’m not aware of too.