Top 5 BitTorrent Clients for Ubuntu Linux
We always have tons of options to use P2P programs when it comes to Windows. Other operating system may lack a bit in such cases. Common sense says that you don’t need 100s of BitTorrent clients when you can choose from some of the only best ones. Following are the most common and widely used BitTorrent Clients for Ubuntu Linux you can download and use today.
BitTorrents for Ubuntu Linux
qBitTorrent is a popular p2p software for Ubuntu Linux. It was developed by a university student from France. It’s powerful, intuitive and with a cool user interface.
Key features of qBittorrent
- A polished Graphical User Interface written with Qt4 toolkit
- UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
- Encryption support (compatible with Azureus)
- Multiple simultaneous downloads / uploads
- Download from RSS streams
- An integrated search engine
- DHT (trackerless) support
- uTorrent Peer eXchange support (PeX)
- Directory scanning with automated download of torrents inside
- Good internationalization (~25 languages supported)
Download qBitTorrent
KTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in C++ for KDE using the Qt user interface toolkit. It is maintained in the KDE Extragear. It offers Internet searching with torrent search engines using KHTML part. You can then easily upload and download speed capping / throttling & scheduling.
It offers
- Support for UDP trackers.
- IP address blacklist plugin
- Port forwarding with UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
- Protocol encryption
- DHT (mainline version), and support for trackerless torrents
- µTorrent peer exchange (PEX) support (as of 2.1 RC1).
- File Prioritization
- Ability to import partially-downloaded files
- Directory scanner to automatically watch directories for new torrents
- Manual addition of trackers to torrents
- RSS feed support
- Web interface plugin with default port number 8080
Download kTorrent
rtorrent is a BitTorrent client for ncurses, using the libtorrent library. The client and library is written in C++ with emphasis on speed and efficiency, while delivering equivalent features to those found in GUI based clients in an ncurses client.
It allows you to
- View download.
- Change view.
- Start download.
- Stop an active download, or remove a stopped download.
- Close a torrent and its files.
- Initiate hash check of torrent.
- Change the destination directory of the download. The torrent must be closed.
- Call commands or change settings.
- Change the priority of the download.
- backspace
- Add torrent using an URL or file path. Use tab to view directory content and do auto-complete.
- View log. Exit by pressing the space-bar.
- Delete the file the torrent is tied to, and clear the association.
- Toggle whether torrent ignores ratio settings.
Download rTorrent
Azureus is a Powerful torrent meta-search with login support for private trackers. It allows you to download files quickly and efficiently with intelligent bandwidth, queue and speed management.
Download Azureus
Deluge is another BitTorrent client that no only works with Linux but all the other major operating systems as well.
Deluge has a wide-array of features, including:
- Web UI
- BitTorrent Protocol Encryption
- Mainline DHT
- Local Peer Discovery (aka LSD)
- FAST protocol extension
- µTorrent Peer Exchange
- UPnP and NAT-PMP
- Proxy support
- Web seed
- Private Torrents
- Global and per-torrent speed limits
- Configurable bandwidth scheduler
- Password protection
- RSS
- And much more!
Download Deluge
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Comments
The list can go on and on and on…I just decided to post some of the best Torrentz client I know of but thanks a a lot for mentioning Azureus…Ill add it to the list right away
Seriously, why do you include µTorrent? Of course it can be made to run within Wine, but the “article” or “list” was topic-ed for “Ubuntu Linux”, which would incline natively.
Meh, I don’t know why I bothered to even comment.. or scroll through this..
Running uTorrent on Wine would be nuts when there are other excellent options that will run natively. Besides, it has been reported that the new owners of uTorrent (since late 2006, if memory serves) are in bed with the RIAA. In other words, uTorrent cannot be trusted anymore.
If you’re using uTorrent, you should either switch to something else, or use a very old version.
uTorrent has been removed from the list..I didn’t realize it would become such a big issue..
I’ll try to be more informative next time..my bad..
I’ve always thought Transmission was awesome and extremely simple to use. Yet somehow, it’s always missing from these lists..
Yeah I have to second your motion there Fireblend. Transmission has a lot of features (including a beautiful web interface, strikingly simple to use auto-updating blocklist, individual file selection, and more) and the interface is simple and uncluttered. It’s very stable. I tried Deluge for a few weeks and I gave up on it after it crashed for the 100th time.
Word to the wise: if you plan to use Transmission, set up the official Transmission repositories, don’t rely on Canonical for updates as they come much too late to be useful.
Transmission is a very simple, and terrific client for Gnome users. Ktorrent is terrific for KDE users. I wish Transmission had a bandwidth schedule like Ktorrent, but both are excellent.
As far as IP blacklisting goes, download and install moblock. It’s the peerguardian equivalent for linux.
List lacks Transmission.
It is simple, provide web interface and it is installed by default in many Linux distributions.
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where is azureus?
the best bittorrent client for ubuntu 8-)