Transmission
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Categories
File Sharing • Backup & SyncPlatform details
Windows: Available in the official GitHub page: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases
Tags
- p2p-sharing
- remote-control
- Torrent Clients
- bittorrent-client
- torrent-download
An official version of Transmission for Windows (2.92) is finally available.
It is not on the project website yet, but in their GitHub page
[Edited by Venom88, October 16]
The developers of this have had their software repeatedly hi-jacked by attackers who infect it with malware. After the first time, you think they would have taken the necessary requirements to prevent this happening again. They did not and of course were attacked again. As of now, all they have done is change web hosts. There are so many security improvements they could make to their systems, but they don't. They will not learn and will be infected again.
There was a serious incident several years back yes, but it was fixed quite quickly and the root issue addressed. I have no affiliation with the project, just a user who was affected by the issue and watched carefully to see how it was handled to know whether it was safe to use. If you stick to distro packages and official distribution channels this should not be a problem. If you wander off into unofficial channels or "patched" versions floating around then you are on your own.
Reply written more than a year ago
A simple and efficient client for bitorrent files sharing and downloading.
The best simple bittorrent client for linux Platform, I discover it with Xubuntu 14.04 and go on it in Ubuntu Gnome 16.04.
As it has less fonctionality than utorrent for example, Transmission do the job, simply but efficiently.
When you click on a bittorrent links in your browser, Transmission open automatically the associated torrent, it is very easy.
Very clean functional interface. The native UI options work great on different platforms, and having CLI and web access to the same setup is nice too. The core program is fast and reliable. The only downside is it does not support sequential downloading (although there is a patched edition out there that does).
It's simple and easy to use. Low on resource usage.