Giving Up on KTorrent.

[swestrup]

I just upgraded my KTorrent from the KDE3 to the KDE4 version, and I can't get it to work. Well, I can, but I can't seem to get it to recognize any of the 250+ torrents in my queue. Of course, KTorrent doesn't have any documentation, so the only thing that it looks like I can do is scan my .torrents cache (over 1000 torrents) and then manually delete 3/4 of them as I determine that I've already downloaded that content. Bleah.

So, if I have to do THAT much work, I might as well switch clients. I've been getting mighty tired of KTorrent crashing all the time and its horrible queue support anyway. So, what linux-based torrent client do folks think I should move to?

Things I am looking for are:

1. Linux platform support.
   
2. Runs as a Daemon on a server.
   
3. Efficiency. No Java/python/perl implementations please.
4. Multi-user support.
   
5. Priortiy Queues of some sort.
6. Partial Download support.
7. Encryption
   
8. Client that integrates well with firefox.

So far, the candidates would appear to be:

1. Transmission
2. BTG
3. Deluge
4. MLDonkey

I'm not sure there aren't better candidates out there though, and I don't really have much experience with these. I've tried out MLDonkey in the past and got it working, so at least I have some experience there, but I've never tried out its bittorrent features, so I don't know how useable they are. Transmission is the best known of the list (and so hopefully will get new features faster), but I wasn't impressed with the small amount of use I've given it.

Otherwise, I have no idea which way to go. Any suggestions?

Comments

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

I does partial : I told it not to download Ecclestone and Tennant on my all of dr who as I already had it. Not sure about auto prioritizing something but you can set to high normal or low priority manually . Resume doenlaod works just fine.