Filed under: Utilities, Linux, Open Source
Freeloader Bittorrent client for Gnome
by Grant Robertson Aug 21st 2006 at 6:30PM
When I installed the OS on my laptop I let Ubuntu pick the BitTorrent client for me. That wasn't a mistake; Ubuntu's default, BitTornado is no slouch and I've been happily using it for quite some time.
This weekend I started downloading AMD 64 images for my much anticipated new machine. As I blissfully piled up simultaneous torrents I was reminded again that, as happy as I was with BitTornado, I'd really like an all in one solution as opposed to a client that starts a new window for each and every download in progress.
Freeloader is the scratch to my itch. A simple app that minimizes to the Gnome system tray and allows individual control of each torrent it is downloading. Freeloader is beautiful in its simplicity, and utterly utilitarian in function. Best of all, for the Ubuntu or Debian user, it's just an apt-get away. For other Linux variants, the requirements are fairly straightforward:
Python 2.3 or 2.4, PyGTK 2.6, GTK+ 2.6 or greater and the BitTorrent Python module version 3.4
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Qwfwq said 7:50PM on 8-21-2006
Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net) is also a great torrent client, with advanced functionalities that are not present in most other clients which can be expanded with plugins. The only "drawback" is being a Java application and as such suffers from a little overhead in system resources usage and takes a bit longer to load when compared to other "native" clients, but most computers with 5 years or less can deal with it quite well.
On my Windows box I started using utorrent (http://www.utorrent.com) which is a much lighter client and also has a very rich feature set. I think that you can also run it in Wine (never tried it myself) but that will also introduce some overhead to it.
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Pepe Gonzalez said 11:16PM on 8-21-2006
I will give Freeloader another try... Last time I tried it, I did not like it, but I don't remember why heheh.
I can also recommend another client that is available for Linux, MacOS and BeOS called Transmission (http://transmission.m0k.org/). As of yet, it does not have much advanced funcionality, but it is getting there. It is very stable, though.
utorrent DOES run under wine, but it loses the whole "mu" concept... it ends up taking as much in resources as Azureus.
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hazard said 11:32PM on 8-21-2006
egad man .. why would even consider AMD now that Core 2 Duo is out??
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