> -----Original Message----- > From: James Drabb [mailto:JDrabb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 18:03, Charles Howse wrote: > > Sooooo..., I uninstalled all that, re-installed the > original rpm from > > http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/btrpms/, and ran the command > it reccomends from > > a shell, and I'm now downloading FC2-test-binary-i386 at 123.7 KB/s. > > Try http://azureus.sourceforge.net/. It is a great front-end > for BT. > It can manange multiple .torrent files and makes creating > .torrents very > simple. It is a Java app so runs on Linx/MS Windows/Mac. It uses SWT > for the GUI (same as Eclipse) so it uses your native toolkit > (GTK+2/Win32) over the (IMO) ugly swing, is fast and light weight. I'm using Azurues both on Linux and Win. I wouldn't call it light-weight exactly. it takes a huge foorprint in terms of memory.. Running top I see SIZE = 224M RSS = 30M SHARE = 49844 %MEM = 6.1 % (of my 512MB RAM) SO.. at 30MB, it's not exactly lightweight. I see bout the same memory usage in WIndows too. But hey, I like azureus.
