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qweasd 09-04-2010 04:14 PM
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Transmission already support multiple watch folders or labels?
Multiple watch folders - no. There is just one, as far as I can tell. Labels? Not sure what these are.

Bruce Hill 09-04-2010 06:01 PM
aria2 - properly built aria2 requires zero seconds editing - multiple concurrent connections are awesome.

Lufbery 09-04-2010 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Alien Bob (Post 4087710)
That's what I use and like. Although Ktorrent works pretty darned well too.

dive 09-05-2010 05:01 AM
Another vote for qbittorrent. It's also on slackbuilds.org (newer version)

Laodiceans 09-05-2010 08:42 AM
rtorrent does lots of nice things like watch a folder for new torrents and give a destination to those torrents automatically. Deluge to the same with the autoadd plugin.
I tried the same with qbittorrent and I didn't find a way to do it.
My problem with rtorrent is that my ISP have a restrict QOS or "traffic shaping". I have rtorrent very encrypted (I think!) with this line:

Code:
encryption = allow_incoming,try_outgoing,require,enable_retry,require_RC4
but that limits the max open files and max open sockets. And rtorrent stays "heavy" with lots of torrents. The WebUI wTorrent and even the CLI turns very very slow when the speed reaches 2/3MBytes.
I used Deluge as an option but it crashes a lot. I don't know if it is really that way or if because Slackware or because the great number of torrents.
I have currently about 400 torrents downloading and seeding.

bnguyen 09-05-2010 10:51 AM
rtorrent for leeching/seeding, transmissioncli or torrentinfo for viewing info about a torrent.

tommcd 09-05-2010 11:22 AM
Here is another vote for transmission. It is light on system resources and works very well. It is also updated very frequently. It is very easy to install and use and keep up to date with the slackbuild script at slackbuilds.org.
For what it's worth, transmission is the default torrent app included with the lightweight Slackware based distros Zenwalk and Salix. Transmission is also the default torrent app included with Ubuntu.

Here is a timely article that attempts to answer the question: "What's the best Linux BitTorrent app?"
http://tuxradar.com/content/whats-be...bittorrent-app

igadoter 09-05-2010 01:08 PM
@Bruce Hill
I found that aria2 is published under GNU GPL but is featured with xml-rpc which itself is US patented - don't know what to think about that.

mrclisdue 09-05-2010 01:35 PM
+1 rtorrent (just set and forget....)

@Bruce Hill
learn something new every day - I don't recall hearing of aria2, looks very interesting and tempting....

cheers,

njb 09-05-2010 07:35 PM
+1 rtorrent
 
The first one I used was transmission but I quickly changed it for rtorrent cause it gives more info about leech and seed.
Now I changed my distro and Im using slackware.
So the default client is ktorrent, and I use it.

I keep a good souvenir using rtorrent.

;-) NjB )

njb 09-05-2010 07:40 PM
igadoter said :

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I login via ssh and start rtorrent on a screen socket
what do you mean by 'a screen socket' .

,-) NjB )

Laodiceans 09-06-2010 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by qweasd (Post 4088152)
Multiple watch folders - no. There is just one, as far as I can tell. Labels? Not sure what these are.
With labels you can put a label on torrents and make categories, like: books, movies, music...etc.

BTW: I'm trying deluge 1.3 rc2 in my Slackware, i will report it soon.

igadoter 09-07-2010 01:58 AM
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Originally Posted by njb (Post 4089007)
what do you mean by 'a screen socket' .

,-) NjB )
Code:
screen rtorrent
screen -ls
  1234.pts-0.enzo2
With screen you may run rtorrent in background - I think it is a bit more complicated but manual for screen is so huge and discouraging that I never even tried to learn more than 5% about screen. I am using it for a very simple task.

diwljina 09-07-2010 05:06 AM
+1 rtorrent (with screen)

dimm0k 09-07-2010 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by qweasd (Post 4087739)
I personally prefer transmission. I have it working great in 13.1 x64. I was able to build transmission-2.01 against libevent-1.4.14b-stable (the only dependency). Let me know if you need more info.
Did you link to libevent via flags put along the ./configure? I thought I had libevent installed properly so that ./configure for transmission would be able to find it, but until I used the flags it was not.


As for rtorrent, I'm actually surprised I have neglected to look for a non-GUI torrent client. Might have to check that out!


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