Best Torrent client for linux?

Shaye87

Shaye87

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I am making my move to linux (Ubuntu 8.10) these days and would like to know if there is any really *good* torrent client that works smoothly on linux, say something that is very similiar features-wise to utorrent on windows?

thanks :)
 
It depends what you are after, Transmission for me, but I don't download much at all so don't know how it goes with heavy use.
 
I use ktorrent, has everything i need, Especially scanning a network share and downloading to specific locations.

others might do it.

Rtorrent is invaluable on a headless box coupled with screen.
 
another vote for deluge here - more features than transmission, and seems to run faster then Azurues. Its on 24/7 and have never had any issues.
 
I prefer deluge when they didn't include transmission on ubuntu but since then that does me fine, i don't actually get what a client can do beyond these two, one of the only real features i can see the need for is throttling which most have anyway?
 
I also use utorrent in wine, its just like a native app :). Also very easy to install:

Install wine
download utorrent
right click utorrent.exe and choose "open with wine windows program loader"

and it installs it in seconds :)
 
The far-and-away best torrent client on any platform is rtorrent. It's the fastest, most stable, and consumes the fewest rtesources. The ONLY downside is that it's CLI-only. This makes it nice for administering remotely since opening an SSH session is trivial to initiate, but it does mean there's a learning curve.

The maintainer of µTorrent tests it for complete compatibility with WINE, so if you're on an x86 platform it'll work well. If it's what you want to use I see no reason to switch.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
The far-and-away best torrent client on any platform is rtorrent. It's the fastest, most stable, and consumes the fewest rtesources. The ONLY downside is that it's CLI-only. This makes it nice for administering remotely since opening an SSH session is trivial to initiate, but it does mean there's a learning curve.

The maintainer of µTorrent tests it for complete compatibility with WINE, so if you're on an x86 platform it'll work well. If it's what you want to use I see no reason to switch.
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There is a few web based frontends for rtorrent which are pretty good :) But I agree with you, its the best and very powerful once you learn how it all works.
 
I can't help but thinking rtorrent makes things more difficult for me. It seems to me the fastest way to add torrents to rtorrent is to make rtorrent watch a folder and automatically add torrents that are added to the folder. With Deluge, which I'm using atm, I click the link for the torrent I want and it's automatically opened with Deluge. That saves me some time, instead of clicking save as and then navigate to right folder. At least I couldn't find a good way to do this with rtorrent.

For server purpose I tend to use torrentflux-b4rt as it comes with a pretty web gui. :p I'm guessing the same thing might be possible with rtorrent.
 
uTorrent under wine as well. Works perfectly.

I'd probably go for Azureus if you don't want to install wine though. Just disable all the Vuze crap and it's pretty much the same as it used to be :)
 
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