More on torrent clients ( was Re: Here is Herd5 )

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:44:36 -0800 (PST)
"Steve Lamb" <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:

> Peter Garrett wrote:
> > The Ubuntu BT client is OK , but personally I get the best results with
> Azureus,  or the CLI client "rtorrent".  Azureus also supplies a lot of
> information in its GUI - which for curious people like me is
> > interesting ;-)
> 
>     Quite so.  I wish there was a BT client that gave 1/2 the power of
> Azureus but was still using the core Python code and not Java.  Java is just
> so bloated.  :/

rtorrent is very efficient - but requires configuration in the text file
~/.rtorrent.rc , and the documentation is incomprehensible unless you have
an intimate understanding of the bittorrent protocol...  which I have
not ;-)

There is a new python/gtk2 app which is available in Debian unstable, but
not yet in Ubuntu ( although if you run Feisty, I believe it is now in the
universe repo )

- it is " deluge-torrent"

http://deluge-torrent.org/

I've had a short look at it and it seems promising, although so far I have
not worked out how to tweak its settings adequately. It uses libtorrent.

Peter