Deluge: A cross platform bittorrent client

Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows. It has been designed using the client server model with a daemon process that handles all the bittorrent activity. The Deluge daemon is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces being able to connect remotely from any platform. Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge’s functionality is available in the form of plugins.
Installation on Ubuntu
As already mentioned , Deluge is available on a wide variety of platforms. For Ubuntu,Deluge is available in the universe repository. Cutting edge versions of Deluge is also available as a PPA via launchpad.
For installation from PPA, add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Import the key from the PPA site.
https://launchpad.net/~deluge-team/+archive/ppa
Install deluge
$ sudo apt-get install deluge

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Using iSCSI On Ubuntu 9.04 (Initiator And Target)

This guide explains how you can set up an iSCSI target and an iSCSI initiator (client), both running Ubuntu 9.04. The iSCSI protocol is a storage area network (SAN) protocol which allows iSCSI initiators to use storage devices on the (remote) iSCSI target using normal ethernet cabling. To the iSCSI initiator, the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive.

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