Alexander Larsson wrote:
At some point in time we in the desktop group discussed shipping bittorrent and a nice frontend in fedora core. Since more and more people start to use this as a standard way of distributing software (e.g. fedora core itself uses this) it really should be supported in a default desktop install, so that when you click on a torrent file in the browser something "nice" happens. What are peoples opinions on this? Another question is what frontend to use as a default. bittorrent itself ships with a wxPython based frontend (bittorrent-gui, availible with bittorrent in fedora extras). Another frontend is gnome-bt (http://gnome-bt.sourceforge.net/) which is designed more like a simple *.torrent mime handler rather than a full bittorrent app. Ubuntu defaults to this i think. I packaged gnome-bt at: http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/gnome-bt-0.0.22-1.noarch.rpm http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/gnome-bt-0.0.22-1.src.rpm I don't use bittorrent all that much. What do people think about these two frontends? Are there other interesting ones?
Java haters unite but i find the azureus bt client to be useful and full featured. It handles UPnP through the router and allows me to set importance values on individual files in a torrent as well as manage full bandwidth throttling. Using these features i only have to download CD's 1 and 2 of a 4 cd distro torrent if id like and i dont have to swamp the network to do it. I havent tried it for compliance ontop of the fedora "free" java stack but it runs quickly on my old clunker on the sun JVM. Take a look at:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ -mf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
