Linux Ware Weekly #18 (Bittorrent Clients)
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From: Whirled.Peas on 21 Jun 2010 09:01 The Linux Ware Weekly #18 Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to introduce Linux users to software they may find useful for completing their various tasks. Each week I plan to bring you a list of applications that are suited to a certain task. I don't guarantee that the lists will be exhaustive by any stretch. In fact I can guarantee that I will probably overlook several applications since there are so many different programs written for Linux and forks upon forks of the popular ones. This week we are going to look at bittorrent clients. Many Linux hobbyists are closet distro junkies. That is, they love to download and install or boot the live CDs of numerous different distros. Many of these distros make their ISO's available as a torrent, which can be a significantly faster means of downloading them than ftp or http downloads. There are several Linux bittorrent clients ranging from the resource hungry Vuze to the command line simplicity of rtorrent. We'll look at a dozen of the clients available for your consideration. GUI clients: Vuze Homepage: http://www.vuze.com/ Screenshot: See the homepage Vuze is a BitTorrent protocol implementation that offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options, and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. It includes an embedded tracker that is easily set up and ready to use. Limewire Homepage: http://www.limewire.com/ From the website: LimeWire is the world's most popular peer-to-peer file- sharing program. With over 50 million unique monthly users, the software is downloaded hundreds of thousands of times every day and boasts millions of active users at any given moment. LimeWire uses the BitTorrent protocol and the Gnutella network to provide unparalleled searches and download speed to the user. As always, LimeWire takes the security of its users very seriously and offers the world's most technologically advanced peer-to-peer software. Deluge Homepage: http://deluge-torrent.org/ Screenshot: http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Screenshots Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client. It features a rich plugin collection and was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. It works well under any desktop environment. Deluge is currently usable on POSIX-compliant operating systems. It is intended to bring a native, full-featured client to GTK desktop environments such as GNOME and Xfce. Deluge aims to be a lightweight, secure, and feature-rich client. As such, most of its features are part of plugin modules. Starting with version 1.0, Deluge separated its daemon (server/core) from its interface, allowing users to remotely manage the application over the web. It has been one of the first clients to support magnet links, introducing this feature with version 1.1.0 Transmission Homepage: http://www.transmissionbt.com/ Screenshot: See Homepage Transmission is a lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end. Transmission runs on Mac OS X with a Cocoa interface, Linux/NetBSD/ FreeBSD/OpenBSD with a GTK+ interface, and BeOS with a native interface. qBitTorrent Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/qbittorrent/index.php? title=Main_Page Screenshot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Qbittorrent-en.png qBittorrent is a C++/Qt4.2 bittorrent client based on libtorrent. It is stable and featureful, with low CPU/memory usage. It features multiple simultaneous downloads, DHT (Trackerless) support, utorrent Peer eXchange (PeX) support, connection through a proxy, selective downloading (only some files in a torrent), downloading in order, Audio/Video file previewing while downloading, tracker authentication, an integrated search engine (as in eMule), downloads from URLs, translations in many languages (20+), torrent creation, Upload/Download limitations, Unicode support, an IP filter (eMule format), and directory scanning (adding torrents automatically). Flush Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/flush/ Screenshot: http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php? group_id=249175 Flush is a GTK+ BitTorrent client. It allows you to run many instances with different configurations for the same user, to create your own torrent files, and to set a custom download path for each file of the torrent. It also allows you to control a running instance from a command line interface: start/stop torrents, change download/upload rate limits, and change the maximum connections limit. Finished downloads can be automatically copied to a specified directory, and old torrents can be automatically removed. Ktorrent Homepage: http://ktorrent.org/ Screenshot: http://ktorrent.org/?q=screenshots KTorrent is a BitTorrent program for KDE. Its features include speed capping (both down and up), integrated searching, UDP tracker support, preview of certain file types (video and audio) and integration into the KDE Panel enabling background downloading. CLI Clients: BitFlu Homepage: http://bitflu.workaround.ch/index.html Screenshot: http://bitflu.workaround.ch/shots.html BitFlu is a client that straddles this list as it could appear in both the GUI and CLI sections. Bitflu is a BitTorrent client designed to run non-stop as a daemon. It does not provide a graphical interface, but offers a telnet interface and can handle multiple torrent downloads. rTorrent Homepage: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ Screenshot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rtorrent.png rTorrent is a console-based BitTorrent client. It aims to be a fully- featured and efficient client with the ability to run in the background using screen. It supports fast-resume and session management. aria2 Homepage: http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ aria2 is a utility for downloading files. The supported protocols are HTTP (S), FTP, BitTorrent (DHT, PEX, MSE/PE), and Metalink. It can download one or more files individually or from multiple sources/ protocols at the same time and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth (by using multiple threads and downloading data from HTTP(S)/ FTP, while also uploading to the BitTorrent swarm). Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunks of data while downloading a file like BitTorrent. The physical memory usage is typically 3MB(normal HTTP/FTP downloads) to 6MB(BitTorrent downloads). CPU usage in BitTorrent with download speed of 1500KB/sec is around 6%. btpd Homepage: http://www.murmeldjur.se/btpd/ Btpd is a utility for sharing files over the BitTorrent network protocol. It runs in daemon mode, thus needing no controlling terminal or gui. Instead, the daemon is controlled by the btcli command line utility, or other programs capable of sending commands and queries on the btpd control socket. The goal is to provide a healthy alternative to the still prevailing ftp/ http servers for file distribution sites and a good BitTorrent client for the casual user. Features of btpd include: Reasonable resource usage. Runs in daemon mode; no need for constant terminal or gui. Command line interface. Sharing of multiple torrents in one btpd process. Upload and download rate limiting. IPv6 support. Multitracker support. Ctorrent (Enhanced) Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dtorrent/ Enhanced CTorrent is a BitTorrent client for unix-like environments. High performance with minimal system resources and dependencies is a priority. Highlights of the enhanced client include: Support for large files (>2GB) and large torrents (>255 files) Strategic selection of pieces to request for download Continuous queueing of download requests, tuned based on latency and throughput for each peer Improved download performance, including parallel requests in initial and endgame modes Improved bandwidth regulation Improved compatibility with other peers Performance optimization and bug fixes An interface for monitoring and managing multiple clients Dynamic cache allocation and management, including prefetch Flexible console I/O redirection Interactive control commands and menus -- If you try, you can envision peas on earth.
From: Dave on 21 Jun 2010 12:22 On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:01:19 +0000, Whirled.Peas wrote: > The Linux Ware Weekly #18 > > Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to > introduce Linux users to software they may find useful for completing > their various tasks. Each week I plan to bring you a list of > applications that are suited to a certain task. I don't guarantee that > the lists will be exhaustive by any stretch. In fact I can guarantee > that I will probably overlook several applications since there are so > many different programs written for Linux and forks upon forks of the > popular ones. > > This week we are going to look at bittorrent clients. Many Linux > hobbyists are closet distro junkies. That is, they love to download and > install or boot the live CDs of numerous different distros. Many of > these distros make their ISO's available as a torrent, which can be a > significantly faster means of downloading them than ftp or http > downloads. > > There are several Linux bittorrent clients ranging from the resource > hungry Vuze to the command line simplicity of rtorrent. We'll look at a > dozen of the clients available for your consideration. > > I've been hooked on using ktorrent in KDE and Transmission in GNOME,but I just started giving Qbit a try on this Fedora KDE install and it is really nice.Looks and feels like utorrent,which many people run in WINE.Simple and fast,download speeds ok,no throttling any other traffic,a keeper. Dave -- Registered Linux User #444770 Fedora 13 Goddard
From: Nemesis on 21 Jun 2010 19:25 On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:01:19 +0000, Whirled.Peas wrote: > The Linux Ware Weekly #18 > This week we are going to look at bittorrent clients. Transmission kept update with the ppa deb. (Using v2.00 (10790) under ubuntu 10.04) It's a 1050kb download, including the GTK pack []'s
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