Transmission

Open source; Donationware

Current Version: 1.22 (June 16, 2008)

From the Transmission web site: "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.

"Transmission runs natively on over five operating systems. Seamless configuration of your network, intelligent banning of peers who send corrupted data, and built in Peer Exchange are some of the features which enable Transmission to download your files as quickly as possible. All this is done in the background, without the user having to worry about complicated settings.

"Transmission is fully open source, with most code licensed under the liberal MIT License and with select code licensed under the GNU General Public License."

Version 1.22 adds/changes the following:

• Fix two separate BitTorrent unchoke bugs that could affect performance
• Transmission now builds correctly on Sun Studio
• Minor man page fixes
• Fix bug where "Program Started" in the Statistics window would sometimes display as 0