BitTorrent client seems way out of date.

[Joshua Henderson]

Even if you are using Gnome, Ktorrent is still a good option. I is just as
good as Azereus, but much much faster (in speed of the application, and I
always seem to get slow downloads with Azereus).

- Josh

On 2/8/07, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:10:17 +1000
> "David Whyte" <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In Edgy, the version of bittorrent is 3.4.2-6ubuntu3, where are the
> > latest version on the Bittorrent website is 5.0.5.
>
> I seem to remember reading that there are licensing issues with the later
> bittorrent client versions.
>
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com/msg00019.html
>
> Is the only reference to this I can find at short notice :)
>
> There are alternatives. It depends what you like and need. The rtorrent
> command line client can be tweaked to be very efficient, but configuring
> it
> is rather unintuitive. There is also ktorrent if you prefer qt / KDE style
> apps, which has a nice GUI and is liked by many. It's also possible to
> compile your own "Transmission" client from source, if you feel OK about
> doing that.
>
> http://transmission.m0k.org/
>
> I get the best results from Azureus and rtorrent - but rtorrent requires
> some googling and editing files to get it working well ( as in, your Aunt
> Tilly would not enjoy it)
>
> Everyone seems to think Azureus is a resource hog, but really java is the
> culprit. If you have a reasonable amount of RAM and configure it well, it
> only chews CPU if you leave the GUI running and visible. Leaving it in the
> notification area/ system tray , it only uses a few percent CPU while
> seeding, and no more than rtorrent downloading ( with both properly
> configured).  "YMMV" as they say...
>
>
> Peter
>
> --
> ubuntu-au mailing list
> ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
>



-- 
Hendo
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/attachments/20070209/26162721/attachment.htm