List of BitTorrent clients in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

When doing research looking for a new BitTorrent client I decided to keep track of the various packages I found. This list is only dedicated BitTorrent clients and does not include other software with BitTorrent support nor web based BitTorrent clients. I divided it into lists based on the graphics library (or lack thereof) used. I personally prefer a client be GTK-based so that it can be used as easily under Gnome as KDE. I have also noted the programming language used for each project.

GTK

• azureus / azureus-gcj - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/, Java
• bitstormlite - http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbom/, C++
• bittornado-gui - inactive, http://bittornado.com/, Python
• bittorrent-gui - out of date, http://www.bittorrent.com/download, Python
• deluge-torrent - http://deluge-torrent.org/, Python
• transmission-gtk - http://transmission.m0k.org/, C++

QT

• ktorrent - http://ktorrent.org/, C++
• qtorrent - http://thegraveyard.org/qtorrent.php, Python

Gnome

• gnome-btdownload - http://gnome-bt.sourceforge.net/, Python

Console

• bittornado - inactive, http://bittornado.com/, Python
• bittorrent - out of date, http://www.bittorrent.com/download, Python
• ctorrent - discontinued, http://ctorrent.sourceforge.net/, C
• rtorrent - http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/, C++
• transmission-cli - http://transmission.m0k.org/, C++