1. Transmission
One of the most popoular torrent client for Linux. It’s fast, don’t demand much requirements and works fine in gtk+ and qt.
Has most of the main features that you need for a torrent client. Nothing unique that stands out against the rest though.
Homepage: http://www.transmissionbt.com/
As an open source torrent client, you can be sure that Transmission won't inflict toolbars, ads or other irritations on you. The program does have plenty of advanced features - magnet links, DHT, encryption, UPnP port forwarding and a whole lot more - but it still manages to be one of the most lightweight and efficient torrent tools around.
One of the best cross-platform torrent clients you'll find is Transmission. It runs on Linux and Mac OS X, and has a native interface for Qt, GTK+, the command line, and Web interface.
But wait, there's more! Transmission also has a lot of third party tools that work with it, includingTransdroid — a remote client for Android to control Transmission from your phone.
Most Linux distributions package Transmission, and it may even be installed by default. (I believe it is on openSUSE 11.4, for example.) If not, just search for "transmission" using your favorite package management tool or head over to the download page where you'll find native packages for everything from Ubuntu to Puppy Linux.
2. uTorrent
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention µTorrent, which is an official torrent client from the BitTorrent folks.
The upsides? It's small, lightweight, and produced by the folks who started it all.
The downsides? It's not as well integrated with the Linux desktop, and it's not open source. So you're not going to be finding it packaged for most Linux distros. But it is a high-quality client, and it's worth looking at if open source isn't one of your main criteria. You can find downloads of µTorrent for 32-bit Linux on the µTorrent site.
There is only native linux server available. But the client works flawless with wine. Many users use utorrent with wine. As it’s fast, clean and got the right features as a torrent client should have. This is a great torrent client and do not think it’s worse than any other clients because it uses wine.
I would say it fits in the top 5 torrent clients for running in Linux.
Homepage: http://www.utorrent.com/
3. KTorrent
For KDE fans, there's Ktorrent, which is a full-featured torrent client that integrates deeply with the KDE platform.
Ktorrent has support for uTP, super-seeding, video streaming, and uses KDE's KParts for searching for torrents.
In short — if you're a KDE user, KTorrent should be at the top of your list to try. Like Transmission, most Linux distributions should package KTorrent — or you can download KTorrent source if you're looking for the very latest release.
Built for kde. Don’t have any personal information about this one, as I haven’t used kde for some time now. Recommend to install it and give it a go, if you don’t like the other clients.
Homepage: http://ktorrent.org/
4. rTorrent
If you're not into all that GUI stuff, then you may want to have a look at rtorrent, which is an ncurses client that uses the libtorrent library.
The focus for rtorrent is speed and simplicity. Unlike the GUI clients, you control everything via keybindings, and you don't need to be running X to make use of rtorrent. Now, other torrent clients may have a CLI version as well — but rtorrent is designed from the ground up for CLI use. This can be really useful if you need to script your torrenting, or if you want to use BitTorrent from your server instead of your desktop. (I find it may be much faster to grab an ISO on my server via BitTorrent, and then
sftp it down than trying to do a straight HTTP or FTP download from overloaded servers.)
Most distros package rtorrent, though I don't see it in the openSUSE repos — but it is in Ubuntu. Check the rtorrent site for source code.
Is a textbased client. But you can easily add a front-end for it. Like rutorrent or similar. All kinds of front-ends uses web browser to do different things though,
Homepage: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/
5. Vuze
Very powerful torrent client. Using java to be able to run it. Got plenty of features, like RSS feed, Video playback, HD Player and be able to search within the client. Might feel it’s too much for a torrent client though. As you still only want to probably download and upload files. Nothing i recommend for daily use though.
Homepage: http://www.vuze.com/
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