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
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