GNOME bittorrent downloader

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sat Nov 27 20:40:50 CST 2004


On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:54:14AM +0000, Martin Alderson wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:02:13 -0500, foolswisdom <dlist at ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> > A good solution would be not to build a GUI over BT or another protocol
> > , but to create a P2P interface and have protocol plug-ins .
> 
> So you are suggesting instead of using network that millions use, we
> don't bother becasue a few ISPs bandwidth shape it and instead use
> another network which will probably have the exact same problems.
> 
> I think the best idea in this case would be to make a clone of the Mac
> OSX 'offical' Bittorrent client. Very simple yet gives near complete
> control over torrents.

Can you describe it for those of us who are not familiar with it?  What
features does it include which have not yet been discussed?  What makes it
different or interesting?

-- 
 - mdz



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