Thread: What torrent client is the best? (for Ubuntu 10.10)

So I just decided to play around with ubuntu and I have it set to dual boot with windows. Now I'm trying to decide what torrent client to use? I'm mostly looking for something that's stable and accepted by most private trackers, but I'm just not quite sure where to turn. Deluge? Transmission? uTorrent inside of Wine? any others I should know about / look into?

I've used kTorrent since 07 and loved it. But now that I'm on Waffles I've switched to uTorrent in a Wine environment. I made the change just recently and I'm pretty impressed with it. The only difference I've seen so far is uTorrent won't let me kick and/or ban peers.

Cant get much more stable then rtorrent, tho it takes some time to get started with it.

I would recommend rtorrent + rutorrent (rtorrent graphical interface).

For the allowed clients, I would also go to rtorrent. You don't need rutorrent if you're comfortable with CLI. It's not also a memory hogger compared to other clients. What I don't like in rtorrent is the fact that some of the documents are outdated. Once uTorrent for Linux is out and allowed on all trackers, I will make the switch.

Transmission or Deluge BitTorrent Client both are great :)

rtorrent s the best if you ask me.

rtorrent, it's the best :D
you can use rutorrent for front-end (GUI), while rtorrent for back-end :D

Go with rtorrent it is command line based but boy is it light on resources. As mentioned above you can always install rutorrent webui. Anyway take a look at this screenshot.



thats running on a 300mhz pentium with 64mb of ram. rtorrent has one torrent downloading.

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