Azureus is officially Dead, Vuze Goes Social

[praka123]

Azureus is Dead, Vuze Goes Social

Written by Ernesto on June 16, 2008

After 5 years, the popular BitTorrent client Azureus is no more. The Vuze team has officially abandoned the Azureus name and the new “social” BitTorrent client is now completely integrated into the Vuze content distribution platform.



The first version of the Java based BitTorrent client Azureus was released in June 2003, and soon became popular among the early adopters of BitTorrent. Over the years, Azureus turned into one of the most feature-rich clients, backed by a dedicated team of developers and an active community.



Things changed in 2006 when Azureus launched the content distribution platform it called ‘Vuze’ (aka Zudeo), backed up by a total of $34 million venture capital. For a while, they kept releasing a no-Vuze version of Azureus (when Vuze/Zudeo was in Beta), but Vuze CEO, Gilles BianRosa told TorrentFreak that this only caused confusion among their users.


“We started to change our name from Azureus to Vuze over a year ago, but we did not make the change in a clear or consistent manner,” Gilles said. “This has caused a great deal of confusion amongst our users. We want to rectify this situation by changing our name to Vuze consistently.”


“Whilst we recognize the strength of the Azureus name and the frog, it is only associated with our original BitTorrent application. As we move towards creating an all-in-one application for finding, playing and sharing great content, that goes beyond the realm of just a BitTorrent client, we wanted to change our name to reflect that, but bring with us the frog who is such a part of our heritage,” Gilles added.


Today, Vuze comes with a brand new release of their client (v3.1), introducing several new features. One of the most drastic changes is the new social layer that has been added to the client. Vuze users are now able to add friends, share torrents with friends, and give friends a speed boost when you are downloading the same torrent.

Read Complete article :
http://torrentfreak.com/azureus-is-d...social-080616/


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time to move to deluge ?

[MetalheadGautham]

Haha I guess its time to move to uTorrent, KTorrent and Deluge
I never liked Azureus anyway. It was a memory hog.

[abhi_10_20]

yea.. even most trackers had it on banned clients list

[MetalheadGautham]

damn, vuze is STILL azureus. I downloaded it and thanks to Praka123, I wasted 11mb of my precious bandwidth

Prakash, did you check the contents of the .tar.bz2 file before posting ?

[apoorva84]

me sticking to utorrent...also, the collection of videos on vuze is bad, no way close to stage6....lets see what http://vreel.net/ can offer us...vreel open beta tomorrow...

[ray|raven]

Transmission Ftw!!

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by apoorva84

me sticking to utorrent...also, the collection of videos on vuze is bad, no way close to stage6....lets see what http://vreel.net/ can offer us...vreel open beta tomorrow...

stage6 is DEAD because they could not afford to give that much bandwidth for their downloads.
I can only hope Vuze gains more exposure.
Perhaps DivX guys can help by transfering all stage6 content to Vuze.

[infra_red_dude]

Always hated the bloody Azureus. Transmission FTW!

[Hitboxx]

I loved Azureus, served me faithfully of my torrent needs, so many distros and many other things.downloaded for so many years.! R.i.P

Vuze is good too, using it for some months now, need good net speeds though, nice content.

[apoorva84]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

stage6 is DEAD because they could not afford to give that much bandwidth for their downloads.
I can only hope Vuze gains more exposure.
Perhaps DivX guys can help by transfering all stage6 content to Vuze.

yes, that's just one reason...according to this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_6#Shutdown

page, there are other reasons also responsible for the shutdown

[praka123]

using vuze for sometime with customized UI as old Azureus no worries !

[Faun]

I loved stage6

but then vuze is a similar too.

[infra_red_dude]

Actually as a BT client azureus was good.. but then they started adding so many features that the original azureus was lost in the oblivion... it became bloated.. thats when I starting hating it...

[x3060]

utorrent for me too...

[napster007]

I've been using Vuze for quite sometime....and it rocks!!!

[NucleusKore]

Vuze/Azureus is really good. I haven't had memory issues as mentioned above; it runs inconspicuously in my system tray. Earlier versions of Azureus used to crash when I launch limewire, not any more. As long as they maintain that advanced tab in Vuze which gives us the old Azureus back I'm using it.

[anispace]

^^
same here. using it with the classic UI since Vuze was launched.

[praka123]

^exactly!

[naveen_reloaded]

Integrating vuze is making the software very bloaty...

[abhisek_bsws]

ahhhhh....now I think utorrent will be the only good option 4 us

[ax3]

uTorrent ...... rocks ........

[Maverick340]

uTorrent is also a BitTorrent.Inc product. I wont be surprised if they start adding DRM and other anti-piracy filter nonsense to it. I guess such softwares never last being community/ developer driven only.

[praka123]

^that is why deluge torrent rocks
http://deluge-torrent.org/

[Maverick340]

yea, i ran deluge on Ubuntu. instead of transmission.Its pretty neat