Current version: Vuze 5. Vuze, originally known as Azureus, is a BitTorrent client written in Java, which makes it rather platform independent. The Eclipse SWT toolkit is used for providing the user interface functionality. The BitTorrent protocol is a way of exchanging or distributing data over the internet.
Users do not download from a central server, instead they download from other users. Downloading also means uploading, and the amounts of each are linked, to ensure fairness and rapidity in the spread of the file at hand. To be able to download a file, you first need to get the associated.
This file, usually a dozen KB in size, is the "signature" of the much bigger file to be downloaded, and it needs special client software to be read properly.
Vuze is one of those types of software. If you want to host files yourself, you need a tracker, which is basically a central server coordinating the connections between peers.
Vuze can provide a tracker too. In general, most users never use their own tracker, as most torrents are tracked by a few major trackers. You will find, as you discover its functionality, that it is easy to customize your copy of Vuze to exactly fit your needs. This guide is targeting the Windows and Macintosh versions, although Vuze also supports other platforms.
The sidebar acts as the main menu showing the active pages. The active torrents are displayed through Library and its subsets New and Downloading. Vuze HD Network offers a browseable limited directory of available torrents, and you can also search the open internet for new torrents.
It means more work for us, has no advantage for users, and has no advantage for us. All we would do is cater for the misinformed user, and then it creates even more misunderstanding as well as more work for us in future. Instead of doing all that, we'll just point those users to this FAQ. Especially to the first point made here.
If you can point out a valid reason why there should be separate versions, rather than just getting the user to change their interface and living happily ever after , then maybe we'll do it we'll certainly discuss it. We've yet to hear one. Technically, yes. However, that means that whenever we want to send out updates, you have the potential for breaking the interface.
The Vuze UI needs to be kept in sync with the Azureus core code itself - and if they get out of sync, you'll end up with a broken interface which you might not be able to resolve without installing. That's the same reason why we don't and wouldn't distribute the classic user interface separately. No it doesn't. Sourceforge is meant for open source projects - which Azureus is and always has been. Same with the Vuze code. Which, again, Azureus is - you're free to modify it. It's also "free as in beer", so you don't have to pay for it.
If there's some supposed ethical or political reason why you don't want to use Vuze, fine - don't. You're not forced to. We understand that a lot of you won't want to use something like Vuze. Hence, we're not forcing you to use it, nor are we dropping support for the Azureus 2 interface. If we really wanted to force the Vuze interface on everyone, then we could have done.
Removed the original interface or refused to continue development on it. We've done neither. The people working on Vuze are the same people working on Azureus. We've got no interest in removing all the work that we had put in for the classic UI and main Azureus core which we've worked on for several years in our own free time without being paid for it. So now some of those developers who do have families to look after, thanks get paid for their work, while being able to spend more time working on Azureus as well as Vuze.
Is that a bad thing? The reason why it is relatively straight forward to take out the Vuze code is because we deliberately coded that way - the existing core doesn't have any dependencies on the Vuze UI at all.
You don't even have to modify the code. We've even pointed out how you can do it if you really want. But it isn't something we are going to do, for various reasons explained above. Oh, and I do hope your modified version is running the source code you think it is, rather than including some malicious code The only difference there is that the JAR file containing all the class files is bigger - probably in the region of 3 or 4 MB at most.
We've heard the argument that all these changes make things more bloated. To quote this forum post:. I've noticed for a long time that there are always some users who love to scream until their vocal cords bleed about "bloat". Typically, they define "bloat" as "Features I don't use". These same users are always in forums requesting tweaks and new features to their pet software.
Their sense of entitlement is greatly stroked when such tweaks and features are added. The reasons for the changes don't matter. The other users don't matter. The overall health of the project doesn't matter. And it doesn't matter if the screamers can simply ignore the new features and use the software the way they always have, unimpeded.
There is no appeasement other than a total acquiescence to the demands of the screamers. The point that we can't make enough Jump to: navigation , search. Welcome to the Vuze Wiki.
Deutsche Hilfeseite German Current version: Vuze 5. Users are also protected from viruses, malware, adware and phishing attacks. Having VuzeVPN installed on your device, you will no longer have to worry about annoying bandwidth limits. The old Plugin development page. Technical information page for the more complex docs. Read How to report a bug if you think you have found one. Try the latest CVS beta version. Check the Dev Blog for details of the latest changes.
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