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i'm sure it has been asked a million times, but i cant seem to find a good btclient for me.
When I used windows I used uTorrent..which was excellent.
However, no linux uTorrent yet so...
What do you all consider to be good btclients?
Exclude:
- BitTorrent++,
- Nova Torrent,
- TorrentStorm.
- Old editions of Bitlord
- Azureus (unless YOU REALLY THINK THIS ONE IS AMAZING!!)
- Mainline (vanilla bittorrent client)
- Any non-linux clients
Transmission has a very loyal following. I've tried it a couple of times and it never turned me on but might be worth a shot. I'm a big fan of rtorrent, it's a CLI app that I run inside a screen session. It'd be 100x better if it supported encryption but the developer doesn't see it as a priority and I lack the knowledge to write a patch so...
Actually, I'm using utorrent on linux, through wine, and works quite well (only 'big' bug was when 'minimise to tray' was activated), so you can just go on using utorrent. Here is a little howto for installing utorrent in ubuntu (you should maybe jump the section about installing wine) http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=191161
I had only ever used Azureus and was happy as a pig in slop until the most recent release wouldn't load correctly and I got tired of fighting with it. (I'll admit that it probably works fine and I just didn't give it enough effort).
Anyway, I switched to Ktorrent and have been pleasantly surprised ever since. My expectations were pretty low, not thinking of it as a serious replacement whatsoever for Azureus, but it has been a solid performer since the first launch.
Nothing wrong with Azureus, version 2.5 works fine. I run Fedora Core 5 with Sun Java release 1.5.08 installed.
And the hunger for for resources? I run Azureus on a Celeron socket 370 with 384MB internal memory. Still enough memory, or processor speed to work nicely with OpenOffice or play a simple game.
If you're running your torrents on some server or 24/7 running computer I'll recommend torrentflux. It is based on bittornado, and is accessible via a web interface.
Distribution: Debian 4.0, Ubuntu 6.10, Ubuntu Server 6.06
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I started off with the official bittorrent client, which does the trick, but is really no-frills.
I then went to ktorrent, which is a great client, but started giving me problems on some of the sites that I download from (throwing the stats off, and getting me into trouble with site mods who think I'm trying to cheat the site).
Now I use Azureus exclusively. It does use more resources than the others, but even on my relatively old computer (AMD 1200 with 768MB), I have Azureus, kopete, Firefox, kontact and konqueror (with a couple tabs) open all at once. Sometimes I'm even burning DVDs at the same time. All with no problems. What would I do without four desktops?
Distribution: Debian Jessie, FreeBSD 10.1 anything *nix to get my fix
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It has got to be Azureus. The java base makes it so flexible that I have it in windows xp, freebsd and linux.
The client is only as good as the user. You need to invest some time looking at the program & reading the instructions hints.. I think the best thing to do is just stick with one client and learn as much as you can about it.
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