Using torrents has become quite an everyday routine for most of us. Though eating up all your bandwidth in one bite, they surely can take the load off traffic-heavy servers. How? Each of us becomes a peer that "seeds" tiny bits of the download, leading to exponentially growing speed and availability. Most of the times, people associate the word "torrent" with piracy, which certainly doesn't come as a surprise, but there are a lot of other legal uses of this great technology.
But I'm not here to discuss ethics, I'm here to present you with June's application of the month: Deluge BitTorrent client. Residing in the "Internet" category, Deluge is quick to launch and provides a perfectly integrated GTK+ interface.
Besides the regular Menu items and the most used controls, Deluge's window is split into three sections: a left pane categorizing torrents to easily find what you're looking for, the bottom part showing in-depth details of the currently selected torrent and, of course, the "main" area, from where you can overview the current state of all your torrents.
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