Favorite torrent client?

qweasd · 09-04-2010, 04:14 PM

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Transmission already support multiple watch folders or labels?

Multiple watch folders - no. There is just one, as far as I can tell. Labels? Not sure what these are.

Bruce Hill · 09-04-2010, 06:01 PM

aria2 - properly built aria2 requires zero seconds editing - multiple concurrent connections are awesome.

Lufbery · 09-04-2010, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

Try qbittorrent: http://slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/qbittorrent/ (needs http://slackware.com/~alien/slackbui...ent-rasterbar/ too)

Eric

That's what I use and like. Although Ktorrent works pretty darned well too.

dive · 09-05-2010, 05:01 AM

Another vote for qbittorrent. It's also on slackbuilds.org (newer version)

Laodiceans · 09-05-2010, 08:42 AM

rtorrent does lots of nice things like watch a folder for new torrents and give a destination to those torrents automatically. Deluge to the same with the autoadd plugin.
I tried the same with qbittorrent and I didn't find a way to do it.
My problem with rtorrent is that my ISP have a restrict QOS or "traffic shaping". I have rtorrent very encrypted (I think!) with this line:

Code:

encryption = allow_incoming,try_outgoing,require,enable_retry,require_RC4

but that limits the max open files and max open sockets. And rtorrent stays "heavy" with lots of torrents. The WebUI wTorrent and even the CLI turns very very slow when the speed reaches 2/3MBytes.
I used Deluge as an option but it crashes a lot. I don't know if it is really that way or if because Slackware or because the great number of torrents.
I have currently about 400 torrents downloading and seeding.

bnguyen · 09-05-2010, 10:51 AM

rtorrent for leeching/seeding, transmissioncli or torrentinfo for viewing info about a torrent.

tommcd · 09-05-2010, 11:22 AM

Here is another vote for transmission. It is light on system resources and works very well. It is also updated very frequently. It is very easy to install and use and keep up to date with the slackbuild script at slackbuilds.org.
For what it's worth, transmission is the default torrent app included with the lightweight Slackware based distros Zenwalk and Salix. Transmission is also the default torrent app included with Ubuntu.

Here is a timely article that attempts to answer the question: "What's the best Linux BitTorrent app?"
http://tuxradar.com/content/whats-be...bittorrent-app

igadoter · 09-05-2010, 01:08 PM

@Bruce Hill
I found that aria2 is published under GNU GPL but is featured with xml-rpc which itself is US patented - don't know what to think about that.

mrclisdue · 09-05-2010, 01:35 PM

+1 rtorrent (just set and forget....)

@Bruce Hill
learn something new every day - I don't recall hearing of aria2, looks very interesting and tempting....

cheers,

njb · 09-05-2010, 07:35 PM

The first one I used was transmission but I quickly changed it for rtorrent cause it gives more info about leech and seed.
Now I changed my distro and Im using slackware.
So the default client is ktorrent, and I use it.

I keep a good souvenir using rtorrent.

;-) NjB )

njb · 09-05-2010, 07:40 PM

igadoter said :

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I login via ssh and start rtorrent on a screen socket

what do you mean by 'a screen socket' .

,-) NjB )

Laodiceans · 09-06-2010, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by qweasd

Multiple watch folders - no. There is just one, as far as I can tell. Labels? Not sure what these are.

With labels you can put a label on torrents and make categories, like: books, movies, music...etc.

BTW: I'm trying deluge 1.3 rc2 in my Slackware, i will report it soon.

igadoter · 09-07-2010, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by njb

what do you mean by 'a screen socket' .

,-) NjB )

Code:

screen rtorrent
screen -ls
   1234.pts-0.enzo2

With screen you may run rtorrent in background - I think it is a bit more complicated but manual for screen is so huge and discouraging that I never even tried to learn more than 5% about screen. I am using it for a very simple task.

diwljina · 09-07-2010, 05:06 AM

+1 rtorrent (with screen)

dimm0k · 09-07-2010, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by qweasd

I personally prefer transmission. I have it working great in 13.1 x64. I was able to build transmission-2.01 against libevent-1.4.14b-stable (the only dependency). Let me know if you need more info.

Did you link to libevent via flags put along the ./configure? I thought I had libevent installed properly so that ./configure for transmission would be able to find it, but until I used the flags it was not.

As for rtorrent, I'm actually surprised I have neglected to look for a non-GUI torrent client. Might have to check that out!