Free bittorrent client software for linux

Transmission is a free BitTorrent client written from scratch in C. Transmission is still in early development stage.
Transmission aims to be as efficient as possible. Transmission runs on Mac OS X, BeOS, Linux and NetBSD (and probably on other UNIX-like systems too). Only the Mac OS X version has a graphical interface yet.
Transmission is released under the MIT license.
Enhancements:
- Fix 0.80 assertion crashes
- Fix a bug that miscounted how many peers Transmission wants connected
- Correct incorrect error messages
- Memory leaks fixed

Torrent Swapper is an open sourced sociable peer to peer file-sharing client based on the Bittorrent protocol that is ideal for high-speed distribution of large files that has a basic understanding of human friendships, of user tastes in content, and of Internet connectivity between users.
Torrent Swapper project supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, speed limits, port mapping, disk cache, proxy, ip-filter, etc.
Main features:
- Amazon-like recommendations to get interesting files
- Doubling the download speed by using the upload capacity of friends
- Real-time P2P file sharing with P2P video streaming
- Showing the locations of seeders / leechers of the same content with city-level accuracy on a world map
- Multiple downloads in a single window
- Queueing system with priority
- Supporing pause, stop, resume, queue, remove operations
- Supporting global setting such as upload and download limiting
- Supporting local setting for each torrent as well
- And much more...

sharkTorrent project is a bittorrent client written in c++ and it uses wxwidgets , libtorrent and boost.

LH-ABC is a multi platform BitTorrent client based on ABC.
Main features:
- RSS feeder
- Web search
- Directory scanner
- Command scheduler
- More flexible UI
- Core improvements
- And much more!

BitTorrent Queue Manager is a console-based BitTorrent client running on top of BitTornado that provides built-in queue management functions.
BitTorrent Queue Manager also provides a remote interface compatible with ABC for Web-based control. Furthermore, peer information can be queried, including country and network names, and a built-in crawler can gather new torrents on specified trackers or catalog sites for downloading automatically.
This is the new beginning of BTQueue. By upgrading to 0.1.0, you are able to:
- Utilize DHT network compatible to Bram Cohens client and BitComet
- Query IP location from updated database plus AS number (see ip2cc)
- Change client identifier to Azureus, Bram Cohens client, or BitComet

BTG is a Linux bittorrent client implemented in C++ and using the Libtorrent library. Provides a Ncurses, Gtkmm and www GUI, which communicate with a common backend running the actual bittorrent operation.
Main features:
- Daemonized backend.
- Number of different clients.
- Ability to change client without stopping downloads.
- Common interface (transport layer) used to access the daemon shared by the clients.
- Portability.
- Tested on Linux, OSX, FreeBSD.
- Session saving.
- Per user event callback.

BitAnarch provides a BitTorrent client with many useful features and reduced resource usage.
BitAnarch is a compact BitTorrent client.
Main features:
- available in three languages
- multiple downloads support
- automatic bandwidth distribution
- full Unicode filename support
- newsgroup scanning
- automation
- drag-and-drop support
Enhancements:
- Bugfix: crashes at program termination/when the machine is very busy
- Bugfix: Error message does not appear in non-English language settings
- Silent allocation for NTFS
- Stability greatly increased
- CPU usage greatly decreased when minimized
- System newsreader is now used to view nntp messages
- The "Stay on top" setting now effects immediately, restart is no longer needed
- Download rate limit
- A spiced up user interface

Flash! Torrent is a BitTorrent client that includes a small web browser for navigate in the webs about BitTorrent.

BitTorrent is a programl for distributing files. Its extremely easy to use - downloads are started by clicking on hyperlinks. Whenever more than one person is downloading at once
they send pieces of the file(s) to each other, thus relieving the central servers bandwidth burden. Even with many simultaneous downloads, the upload burden on the central server
remains quite small, since each new downloader introduces new upload capacity.

Windows web browser support is added by running an installer. A prebuilt one is available, but instructions for building it yourself are in BUILD.windows.txt