Reviews and Ratings
rtorrent is the fastest torrent client i ever saw.
It has a quite easy-to-learn interface and is very customizable.
There is no more need to use X server to download/seed torrents that's great! I can only use ssh and enjoy performance of this tiny program :)
I wasn't testing many project management systems.
I tested trac but was absolutely disappointed when it was running as separate server and loaded my CPU at 100% for 1-2 secs for each request i made.
When i first saw Redmine i thought: that will be the project management system i will use!
So i installed it and the more i was digging into it's settings the more i liked it.
It supports many projects in single instance.
I also can separate privileges in it the way only people needing access to single project will log in and see _that_single_project_ i registered them for. While there can be many other projects he will not see(if i don't mark them as public) and will not access even if he knows it's name and URL.
Basically I was looking for a project management environment only for myself. Recently i was using plain text files to plan and write down all stuff around project i develop. Yes i can say it sometimes easier, but I also needed to track and see my code changes. So i needed also some easy web-based repository browser. And redmine is good for this purpose.
By now i can say it is the best set of scripts for web server i ever saw! I mean i was looking through many CMS/engines for websites but this one's UI completely differs from anything i've seen before.
If talk about default theme: nice colors that I seen somewhere already and really got used to them so they look good for me.
Theme doesn't containing any stupidness like "transparent glass"-buttons and other controls that usually makes me mad and I trash the software with that kind of UI.
Fast javascript code in the places where it really needs to be, not everywhere. So it's balanced JS usage, that doesn't slows down but accelerates process of doing things.
And the best of all, it is really fast! It doesn't kills my PC with heavy CPU loading or long response time from 127.0.0.1, which many other web engines do because of their bad way of coding.
I also can set up my nginx webserver the way it will proxy requests from my domain to ruby webserver of Redmine.
Long story short: i really enjoy every moment of using Redmine. And i will advice it to anyone who is looking for easy and _fast_ project management environment. :)