Free torrent software for linux

EZtorrent project is a program that simplifies the process of publishing content via BitTorrent.

EZtorrent automates the process of generating .torrent metainfo files, as well as starting trackers and seeders.

Although its very easy to download files BitTorrent, distributing your own files via BitTorrent yourself is not a comparatively straightforward process. You need to carefully generate .torrent metainfo files, start a tracker process, then start a seeder process for each individual .torrent file. EZtorrent combines all of this into one, easy step. Heres a "Quick Start" version of how easy it is to distribute BitTorrent content with EZtorrent:

Download and install BitTorrent according to its instructions.

Download EZtorrent, unpack the source code, run ./configure, make, and make install. See the INSTALL file for more information.

Run the following commands:

ezt create mytorrents /var/www/html/torrents /var/mytorrents
www.example.com 6969

Now, copy some files into /var/mytorrents

ezt start # Or "ezt restart", if ezt is already running

Thats it. ezt reads a list of all the files in /var/mytorrents. For each file, a corresponding .torrent file is created and placed in /var/www/html/torrents. Presumably this directory is published over the web with Apache, or some other HTTP server, where others can find them. Then, ezt starts a tracker process running on TCP port 6969 (the above example uses www.example.com as the DNS name of the machine running EZtorrent). Finally, ezt starts a seeder for each .torrent file.

New files can be added to, or removed from, /var/mytorrents at any time. After adding or removing files, run "ezt restart". ezt takes care of creating any new .torrents that need to be created, removing any obsolete .torrents of removed files, and starting or stopping the corresponding seeders. It is also possible to create different directories for different sets of files. You just need to specify a separate TCP port for each directory; ezt also takes care of starting (or stopping) a separate tracker process for each configured directory and port.

Although this is all that you need to know about using EZtorrent, be sure to review some additional important information in INSTALL and NEWS files, and EZtorrents manual page.

GSTorrent is a Bittorrent client/server system. A daemon program handles all the file transfers as a Bittorrent client. The GSTorrent daemon also acts as a server for an external GUI client.
The objective is to have a relatively small Bittorrent client, which runs on a small computer without a graphical interface and to control this server from a different machine.
An example of this type of architecture is the mldonkey client/server system for the edonkey protocol.
Enhancements:
- The torrent hash problem is fixed.
- The upload/download rate settings finally work correctly.
- A better torrent selector.

KTorrent is a BitTorrent filesharing program for KDE.
Main features:
- Downloads torrent files
- Upload speed capping, seeing that most people cant upload infinite amounts of data.
- Internet searching using The Bittorrent websites search engine
- UDP Trackers
It has only been tested on linux at the moment, but it should work on most, if not all unix platforms.
Enhancements:
- This is a bug fix release for the 2.2 version. The most notable bug it fixes is the file selection.

TorrentFlux is a PHP torrent client for Linux.
Manage all of your Torrent downloads through a convenient web interface from anywhere. Requires Apache with PHP module, MySQL and, BitTornado or BitTorrent source (included).
Main features:
- Upload Torrents via URL or File Upload
- Start, Stop, and Delete Torrents with a click
- Advanced Torrent start options (ports, speeds, etc.)
- Multi-user interface
- RSS Feeds, download Torrents files with a click
- View Download Progress of all torrents at a glance
- View drive space at a glance
- View Torrent file meta information
- Built-in User management and Security
- Private Messaging
- Themes (selectable per user)
- Upload History
- Detailed User Administration
- Admin Searchable Logs
- Torrent Search via Suprnova.org
- Language Support
Current language support for:
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish

rwdtorrent is a BitTorrent client. It can view metafile information locally or over HTTP. Torrent files can be downloaded.

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...

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

GTorrentViewer is a GTK2-based viewer and editor for BitTorrent meta files. It is able to retrieve information from trackers, check files, show detailed information, and modify .torrent files without having to start downloading.

The purpose of GTorrentViewer is to give the ability to see and modify all the possible information from .torrent files without having to start downloading and the ability to see in real time the current number of seeds and peers on the torrent, so you will always know the status before start the download.