On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:39:54AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: >On Feb 22 2006, Peter Colton wrote: >> http is not a very good way of downloading large file. You would be >> better of using the torrent method. > >This is definitely a good suggestion. More people should use >bittorrent, because: > > * you are always "giving back" to the community when you use torrents; > * your downloads tend to get faster, especially if you have a fat pipe > and one of the peers can't sustain the upload speed to your place; > * you put less load on the server and allow more people to have the > software at the same time as you do; > * it seems to be more reliable, as hash checks are made periodically > for the pieces of files downloaded. > >> One program for downloading torrent file is bittornado. > >And another suggestion would be to use rtorrent, which is much less fat >than using bittornado, the original bittorrent client or azureus (which >needs a Java Virtual Machine environment to be run). > >Since I like to be minimalistic with my choices of programs, I found >rtorrent to be perfect, as it is written in a compiled language and >runs in native speed---and both the memory and space consumptions are >better than those used by the clients that I cited above (sometimes by >two orders of magnitude). > >And it is a nice motivation for using the "screen" program (also >packaged for Debian), just for the detach feature that it offers.
There's also a GNOME bittorrent client, gnome-btdownload, in case you are into graphical gooey stuff. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. -- R.P. Feynman
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