Many Linux distributions ship with a torrent client, Transmission. Transmission is a simple torrent client, and it just works. If you need more from a torrent client such as for better torrent management, scheduling, queuing, you may want to find a better alternative. In this article, I will list some of the best torrent clients for Linux. There are lots of famous torrent clients available in the market. But it’s challenging to find out which one comes with the best set of features. Here I will be reviewing and sharing a set of open source torrent client for Linux so that you don’t need to waste your valuable time installing and checking all those torrent clients one by one.
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CTorrent is a lightweight command-line bittorrent client which is written in the C++. Original ctorrent’s upstream has stopped its development and now it’s kept updated with new releases/bug fixes by a new developer. It’s built as a console program and it can be even used remotely in a machine that provides outside ssh access. Other main features are:
- 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.
Install cTorrent:
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You don’t have to do something special to install cTorrent, just search for and install the package from Ubuntu Software Center.
To run ctorrent:
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