Ever since I switched to ubuntu I've noticed my chronic torrent-downloading habbit has decreased by leaps and bounds. I think this is in part because there is a lack of decent bittorrent clients on linux. I know there is azureus, but it consumes a lot of ram and I haven't had the best of experiences with it on ubuntu.
There's hope though, and it's not uTorrent, but it's close. It's a client called Transmission. It's small, fast and sleek. It works really good, and I get the same speeds I achieved with azureus on windows xp, so no problems there. Still, there seems to be a problem with Transmission and some tracker sites, like demonoid. This bug (I think is a bug) makes your ratio go up or go down, so it's risky, but this has been reported with the svn unstable version (0.7.x I think), so if you're having problems just downgrade to 0.6.1 and you're good to go.
If you're searching for a nice bittorrent client on ubuntu just do sudo apt-get install transmission-0.6.1 and try it out!
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Nice article. But there is an qtorrent torrent client, small, graphical and fast. Try it.
The official client is too simple, it doesn't have some features I need. Also, I'm aware of qtorrent, but it's Qt based and it needs extra libraries and stuff to work properly.
Being on a gnome desktop I prefer GTK/Glade apps. Transmission is GTK so I favor it over other clients like qtorrent. :)
use deluge, transmission is too limited
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