bittorrent in core? what frontend?

[Michael Favia]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> At some point in time we in the desktop group discussed shipping
> bittorrent and a nice frontend in fedora core. Since more and more
> people start to use this as a standard way of distributing software
> (e.g. fedora core itself uses this) it really should be supported in a
> default desktop install, so that when you click on a torrent file in the
> browser something "nice" happens.
> 
> What are peoples opinions on this?
> 
> Another question is what frontend to use as a default. bittorrent itself
> ships with a wxPython based frontend (bittorrent-gui, availible with
> bittorrent in fedora extras). Another frontend is gnome-bt
> (http://gnome-bt.sourceforge.net/) which is designed more like a simple
> *.torrent mime handler rather than a full bittorrent app. Ubuntu
> defaults to this i think.
> 
> I packaged gnome-bt at:
> http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/gnome-bt-0.0.22-1.noarch.rpm
> http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/gnome-bt-0.0.22-1.src.rpm
> 
> I don't use bittorrent all that much. What do people think about these
> two frontends? Are there other interesting ones?

Java haters unite but i find the azureus bt client to be useful and full 
featured. It handles UPnP through the router and allows me to set 
importance values on individual files in a torrent as well as manage 
full bandwidth throttling. Using these features i only have to download 
CD's 1 and 2 of a 4 cd distro torrent if id like and i dont have to 
swamp the network to do it. I havent tried it for compliance ontop of 
the fedora "free" java stack but it runs quickly on my old clunker on 
the sun JVM. Take a look at:

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
-mf