On rtorrent (was: Re: Using bittorrent for large downloads)

2006-02-23 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Michael and others. On Feb 23 2006, Michael M. wrote: > Last time I checked, rtorrent was available only in Sid, and aptitude > complained when I marked it for installation. That's strange. I've been using a plain/vanilla etch system here (in fact, I always track testing) and I *do* have rtor

Re: Using bittorrent for large downloads

2006-02-23 Thread Michael M.
Rogério Brito wrote: 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). Last time I checked, rtorrent was available only in Sid, and aptitude com

Re: Using bittorrent for large downloads (was: Re: DVD ISO files)

2006-02-23 Thread Magnus Therning
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: > >

Using bittorrent for large downloads (was: Re: DVD ISO files)

2006-02-23 Thread Rogério Brito
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 torrent