12 cool Linux File transfer – P2P Clients
If you are looking for some good File Transfer / P2P clients for Linux, Ubuntu .. I’ve gathered 12 of the most used applications out there.. Hope you like them 
1- BitTorrent:
BitTorrent is one of the best P2P file distribution client application for Linux. It givesyou access to deliver files to your PC faster than anything else. The Latest bittorrent version 6.0.3 offers the following features:
- Lightweight client
- Local peer discovery
- Configurable bandwidth scheduler
- Global and per-torrent speed limiting
- RSS Downloader
Vuze is a new name for Azereus and was first released as Azureus in June 2003 at SourceForge.net which now claims to be one of the most popular BitTorrent client. Vuze also allows users to view, publish and share original DVD & HD quality video content. The latest version 3.1.1.0 offers improved features, changes and some bug fixes as mentioned below:
New Features:
- Core | Added Auto Starting rule to seed large swarms first; useful when many overseeded torrents are in the queue or the upload capacity is far above average
- Friend Chat (double click on friend icon to chat)
- Ability to share content from your computer by dragging it to a Friend
- Protocol overhead is now shown in the speed graph
- Downloads can now be moved and renamed while running – torrent will be auto-paused
- New “rename” action which renames torrent file, save file and displayed name at same time
- Plugin log views now support autoscrolling, pausing and regex filtering
- Plugin menu items which in the right-click menu now appear in the “Torrent” menu also
- Experimental option to use Mozilla/Firefox as browser widget on any platform (XulRunner or Firefox 3 must be installed)
- Added support for plugins to easily use an external configuration file for settings
- Plugins can now have full control over on-complete and on-removal file moving
- Added resource downloader to provide way to download files from Sourceforge
- Added API methods to generically pop up the message box to a user
- Added API methods to listen to download-complete events
- Added various convenience methods for using log views and config models
- Added API to allow native UI objects to be added to config views
- Added some more methods for plugins to control some transport mechanisms
- Added ability to add menus to status entry objects
- Plugins can now open files using default application handlers
Download Vuze / Azureus | Linux – Linux AMD64
3- FrostWire:
FrostWire is a peer-to-peer file sharing program for the Gnutella and BitTorrent protocols. It’s totally free of cost and offers some great features:
- Completely Free & Open Source
- Absolutely NO Spyware or Adware
- Max. speed network connections
- iTunes Integration
- BitTorrent Support
- Turbo-Charged Download Speeds
- Connects to more sources
- Creative Commons license support
- Max. speed network connections
- Junk Result Filters
- Community Chat Rooms
- Firewall-to-firewall transfers
- Proxy Support
FrostWire Download | Ubuntu/Debian – Red Hat/Fedora
4- FileZilla:
FileZilla Client is a free, open source, cross-platform FTP client. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS). As of August 10, 2007, it was the 12th most popular download of all time from SourceForge.net. Features include:
- Easy to use
- Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
- IPv6 support
- Available in many languages
- Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
- Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
- Drag & drop support
- Configurable Speed limits
- Filename filters
- Network configuration wizard
- Remote file editing
- Keep-alive
- HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
5- Deluge:
Deluge is a BitTorrent client, created using Python and GTK+ (through PyGTK). Deluge is intended to bring a native, full-featured client to Linux GTK desktop environments such as GNOME and XFCE. An official Windows port is also in development. The program uses the libtorrent C++ library, through the python-libtorrent bindings for Python.
6- KTorrent:
KTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in C++ for KDE using the Qt user interface toolkit. It is maintained in the KDE Extragear.
7- BitTornado:
BitTornado is a BitTorrent client. It is the successor of Shad0w’s Experimental Client, and is programmed by the same person. BitTornado is based on the original BitTorrent client, the interface is largely the same, with added features such as
- upload/download speed limitation;
- prioritised downloading when downloading batches (several files);
- detailed information about connections to other peers;
- UPnP Port Forwarding (Universal Plug and Play);
- IPv6 support (if your OS supports it/has it installed);
- PE/MSE support as of version 0.3.18.
8- Transmission:
Transmission is a great free, lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end. Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use.
Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.
9- aMule:
aMule is a peer-to-peer file sharing application that works with the eDonkey2000 network and the Kad Network, but offers more features than the standard eDonkey client, including support for Kademlia.
10- gFTP:
gFTP is a free/open source multithreaded FTP client. It is most used on Unix-like systems, but it can be used on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It includes both a GUI (which utilizes the GTK+) and a command-line interface. gFTP is released under the terms of the GPL and has been translated into 41 languages.
gFTP Features:
- Supports the FTP, FTPS (control connection only), HTTP, HTTPS, SSH and FSP protocols
- FTP and HTTP proxy server support
- Supports FXP file transfers (transferring files between 2 remote servers via FTP)
- Supports UNIX, EPLF, Novell, MacOS, VMS, MVS and NT (DOS) style directory listings
- Bookmarks menu to allow you to quickly connect to remote sites
- Fully Internationalized.
Official Website + Download gFTP
11- MLDonkey:
MLDonkey is an open source, free software multi-network peer-to-peer application. It is also the name of the peer-to-peer overlay network that the MLDonkey uses.
Originally a Linux client for the eDonkey protocol, it now runs on many flavors of Unix-like, Mac OS X, Windows and MorphOS and supports numerous peer-to-peer protocols.
12- Kasablanca:
Last but not the least in my list is Kasablanca. Kasablanca is an FTP/FXP/FTPS client program using the Trolltech QT toolkit and integrating with the K Desktop Environment (KDE). Features include,
- ftps encryption via AUTH TLS
- fxp (direct server to server transfer), supporting alternative mode.
- advanced bookmarking system.
- fast responsive multithreaded engine.
- concurrent connections to multiple hosts.
- interactive transfer queue, movable by drag and drop.
- small nifty features, like a skiplist.
That’s it for now, feel free to comment and send in your suggestions!
9 Comments
awesome list but i think Azureus is the best among all of them followed by Bittorent. FileZilla is good too but u cant find everything on it…. and its much slower then azureus and bittorrent
I’d have to say that Deluge is my favorite linux torrent client. It is much more lightweight than Vuze but with it’s extensive plugins, it can do anything you want. It’s web interface is very nice as well.
That’s one hell of a list!
Thanks for all the info
What a pathetic, random, lazy list. I hope your blog fails just like that.
@Tsss.
I’ll give you a advice. A person with normal IQ clicks the “red cross” if he or she doesn’t like anything.
And coming up with couple of words without a valid reason behind it means you must be standing on the “I need attention” line.
I liked the list. I didn’t know about Frostwire…gonna check that out. I personally just use transmission, but the others look interesting.
Frost wire & azures the best tools available for Linux
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