Transmission

Transmission is designed to be a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client.

Transmission uses a smaller amount of system resources than many other BitTorrent clients (such as Vuze). The project aims to strike a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. For this reason, Transmission is less fully featured than other clients.

The developers are also developing a useful web user interface for Transmission, called Clutch. With Clutch you can easily monitor and control your torrents remotely.

Transmission is now the the official default BitTorrent client for the popular Ubuntu distribution.

Transmission 1.73

Price Free to download Size 4.6MB License MIT license and GNU GPL v2 Developer Mitchell Livingston, Charles Kerr, Eric Petit, Josh Elsasser, Bryan Varner, and other developers Website www.transmissionbt.com System Requirements To compile: `getopt' library with getopt_long() intltool 0.23 or later gettext 0.14.1 or later OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later GTK+ 2.6 or later Support Sites: Wiki, Transmission Forum, Katatology Selected Reviews: gomeler.com

Features include:

• Selective downloading and file prioritizing
• Encrypted peer connections
• Torrent file creation
• Peer exchange (compatible with Vuze and μTorrent)
• Automatic port mapping (using UPnP/NAT-PMP)
• Fast Resume - with peer caching
• Support for Growl notifications and dock badging
• Ban peers that send too much corrupted data
• Single listening port for all torrents
• Global/individual bandwidth caps
• Sorting/filtering options
  

Transmission also features in our 'Linux Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category chooser below allows you to focus on different types of software included in that section.

Last Updated Sunday, August 09 2009 @ 01:30 PM EDT