On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 18:14 -0700, Nathaniel Homier wrote: > Hi, I used to use Azureus on Windows and liked it allot. Of course I > use Debian now and would like to set up a .torrent client. However I no > longer have any desire to use Java hence Azureus is out of the question. > Does anybody know of an replacement that is as good as Azureus. I > have some tv shows that start their season soon so I would like > suggestions on a client.
Honestly, if you're looking for a program with the functionality of Azureus, you won't find it. There are some good 'simple' bit torrent clients out there (bittornado) but Azureus has, by far, the most functionality of any client I've used. If you don't want to use Java in linux because of the hassle of setting it up, it's gotten MUCH easier over the last couple of years. If you're avoiding Java because it's not free, then I fully understand and support your decision. Just be aware that one of the consequences is giving up great apps like Azureus. (Though there is some hope. Azureus uses SWT for the GUI which does NOT require a Sun JVM. However, I believe that some of the other internal code DOES require a Sun JVM. But at some point in the, hopefully, not too distant future, someone may make a fully-free implementation of Azureus that will work with one/all of the FOSS Java alternatives.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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