[geeks] Debian 4.0 Bittorrent for DVD

[Bryan Fullerton]

On 4/12/07, Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com> wrote:
> In a fit of angst Bryan Fullerton gargled the following:
> > On 4/11/07, velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> If someone would just make a decent Torrent client for the Mac or for
> >> Linux (e.g. on par w/uTorrent), I'd be happier.
> >
> > I like rtorrent. It's a CLI app but uses ncurses for nice display.
>
> Strangely I've been using Democracy TV as it's a bittorrent client as well
> as a video player/downloader.  And it works on Mac, Linux, and Windows.

Ah, Democracy uses the original BitTorrent python code. How quaint. ;)

I like that rtorrent uses kqueue on FreeBSD. It's very fast and light.
I'm currently seeding 21 torrents, ranging in size from 20Mb to 2Gb,
and it's using 10Mb of RAM and almost zero CPU.

Bryan