lol i concur ,
i like being able to connect to the session whenever and from whichever pc... with clients running on X i would need vnc and still that takes up network bandwidth..

plus getting an ssh session on my mobile is far more economical than any graphics-involving solution...

I've been using uTorrent 1.6.1 running under wine since I first started using linux. It's the very best torrent client around. Fully featured, easy to use, runs perfectly in wine & is very light on resources.

I've tried rTorrent and quite like that too, but it seems to have some problems with a private tracker that I use. So until I figure that out I'll be sticking with uTorrent.

Plus uTorrent can be used to actually make torrents, something rTorrent cannot do at all. So even if I switched over to rTorrent for my main use's (which I'd like to coz it's a native app), I couldn't switch to it completely because I'd still need another client to make torrents with.

I appreciate all of the response and insight.

I went ahead and downloaded Ktorrent from linuxpackages.net.
It seems to work fine. I think I prefer azureus, but as others have said, it is a heavy weight. Therefore I decided not to use it.

cheers
okos

You know KTorrent is supported by Slackware officially in extra/, right? (I would choose many package sources over linuxpackages.net, especially an official Slackware mirror).

bittorent on slackware, and last weekend, I installed utorrent and run with wine without any problem.

rtorrent here, with ssh from the office

I've used both Ktorrent (when I was running Kde exclusively) and Deluge (during my recent love affair with Xfce) and have found both to be great software. On the whole though I've been happier with Deluge. For some reason Ktorrent always gave me wildly fluctuating download speeds, 80KB one minute and 10KB the next. Deluge just seems more stable and is my torrent client of choice now. I wouldn't hesitate to use either one though.

Azureus on my desktop machine. I love the fact that I can finetune every little thing. It uses somewhat more memory but nothing that average computer (for today's standard) can't handle.
On the other hand, on my shabby old laptop I use transmission. It's light weight and gives me pretty fast downloads.

I prefer KTorrent.

I used ktorrent on my previous desktop machine. It's feature rich, has support for rss subscription, bandwith scheduling, ip filter, multiple search engines, web interface...

Now, I've bought a tiny box which I use as a server and I use rtorrent on it. Mainly because it works without X and it is low on cpu. Coupled with rssdler it can also be used to automatically start selected downloads.

Hi,

I like 'bittorrent' for my Slackware system. A good curses based Torrent.

CLI all the way!

I use bitflu. Fast, small, and has builtin webGUI. Releases are quick and frequent, and project is maturing.