There's also rtorrent. It seems to support trackerless torrents, but I don't know about ipv6. Apparently there are debian packages for it. On Wed, 20 May 2009, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:45:41AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: >> What about the standard clients? BitTorrent, BitTornado and CTorrent >> come to mind. > > According to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_torrent_clients>: > bittorrent 5, which wikipedia calls mainline, supports trackerless, > but doesn't support ipv6. Wikipedia also mentions a bittorrent6, which > supports both. Debian's version of bittorrent seems to be at > 3.4.2. Bittornado supports ipv6, but doesn't support > trackerless. Ctorrent doesn't support ipv6, and the wikipedia page > lists a question mark under trackerless support. Before I wrote here, I > compared wikipedia's list against apt-cache search torrent in > debian. Since going through all of wikipedia's list would take a good > while, I thought I'd ask here instead, and see if someone was already > using something which he/she could recommend. Bittorrent6 looks like > the best out of that above list you gave, I'll see if I can get a hold > of it, or rather, where I could get a hold of it from. > >> I think any recent client should >> support trackerless torrents. > > Yes, but there don't seem to be many that support both trackerless, > and ipv6 strangely enough. > >> In Debian, look for py-bittorrent and >> py-bittornado if the standard package names don't show anything. > > Well, like I said, debian's bittorrent seems to be old, and bittornado > doesn't do trackerless, which I can actually confirm, since I did > install that before going to wikipedia, and saw no reference in the > docs for it to trackerless, nor in the docs for the program used to > generate torrents. If bittornado supported trackerless, that fact > surely would have been mentioned in the docs for the torrent file generator. > >> If Debian doesn't have anything, look at >> the Gentoo ftp archive. They seem to have older and different packages, >> not always present in Debian. > > Thanks, I'll take a look there if I can't find this bittorrent6. > >> >> Also, how did you actually set up a user-mode-linux VM? I looked at the >> user-mode-linux package and it looks like it's just the kernel with no >> obvious way to set up a shell or run processes under it. I would like a >> virtual server without the hassle and resource overhead of a VM such as >> Xen. I'm still interested in xen but it looks fairly complicated to set >> up. All I really need is a virtual Linux server for web and email, not >> a full virtual machine. >> > > Well, uml does essentially give you a virtual machine of sorts. As for > how I set it up, in debian, grab the rootstrap package. I first setup > a uml under slackware some 7 years ago, and don't remember exactly how > I did it, but I do remember that after a lot of frustration, I did > somehow manage to make it install from the isos. Again, this was long > ago, and I don't remember how I did it, just that I finally got it > somehow installed off slackware media after a lot of playing > around. Another option is to simply install a distro of your choice in > a fully emulated vm, and umlify it by replacing the kernel/modules, > and edit files in /etc, like fstab for example. Another option is to > of course get the ready to go file systems from > user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net, but I personally like to roll my own, > so never tried those. HTH, and thanks for your torrent suggestions. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkoUZRYACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyAM6gCglTycupMlI3iJ94yTb9bybvPs > PwMAoL0U4m1gx/A9XQEP+jZdZ4vkHs12 > =xsBW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
