Transmission vs ZOC Terminal

Transmission is free, ad-less and open source software licensed under GPL with parts under MIT with source code available here. Being open source allows anyone to check if the software has no malicious code, is secure and respects privacy.

Transmission is great for getting things done without looking too much under the hood. It still has advanced options, they're just tucked away from sight.

Transmission-gtk uses only 17 mb of RAM in idle state and 24 mb in download state.

Transmission works well on OSX and various distributions of Linux due to having interfaces natively developed for those operating systems instead of haphazardly ported.

The Mac interface is written in Objective-C, uses dock badges and Growl notifications while the GTK+ interface follows GNOME Human Interface Guidelines and has support for popup notifications, desktop sounds, and a system tray.

There's also an unofficial port of Transmission-Qt for Windows.

Transmission covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX, LPD and Magnet URIs. It has graphical, web and command line interfaces. It includes MSE/PE for security. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has UDP tracker and µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers IPv6, Web seeding and Local Peer Discovery. And it auto-updates.

Transmission can be used in text-only mode via transmission-cli that includes a daemon (transmission-daemon), a CLI and a web client (accessed on http://localhost:9091 by default).

Transmission has a web interfaces that can be used to remotely control torrents. It's great as a seedbox (a dedicated private server for uploading and downloading content) due to built-in webseed support.

For those who prefer Linux, the Ubuntu OS comes with Transmission already installed, so you can get your torrents up and running immediately.

Just put it on your server, SBC or even your old phone and you have your own torrent server.

ZOC has a modern design.

It's an actual terminal emulator (in the sense that it emulates a terminal) and not just a local console window app.

Zoc provides complete automation of the client using its macro scripting.

Originally developed for OS/2 (as Zap-O-Comm), Zoc is currently available for Windows and Macintosh.

Offers a thumbnail view of all session in thumbnails and type commands to all sessions at the same time.

In addition to telnet, ssh, and rlogin, ZOC supports direct serial connections, modem dialing, and named pipes.

Tabbed sessions mean that multiple items can be contained within a single window and can be easily navigated by the user.

Zoc allows for every UI component except the title bar to be hidden. All features are accessible through the context menu.

Feature to search for text bits in the data stream and highlight them with color/background.