Azureus + Java 1.5 + FC3

[Paul Howarth]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 18:46, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 11:47 +0000, Jim Higson wrote:
>>
>>>I'd try Gnome-Bittorrent - it's a very simple client, similar to the original 
>>>but that fits in nicer with the Fedora desktop.
>>>
>>>See http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gnome-btdownload/ for details on using it 
>>>with Fedora.
>>
>>Thomas's article was originally written for Fedora Core 2, and so is
>>based on a fairly old version of gnome-btdownload due to more recent
>>versions requiring later versions of various gnome libraries that were
>>not available in FC2. FC3 does contain the required libraries and is
>>therefore compatible with the latest version of gnome-btdownload
>>(0.0.17). I have FC3 RPMs available at: http://www.city-
>>fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/
> 
> 
> Thanks Paul for the suggestion, but I have to decline. I think it's not
> because I'm used to azureus, it's just the features of Azureus is much
> better compared to others.
> 
> It's capability to queue is amazing. as well as to limit/rate/ban
> traffic. It's something else.

The new BitTorrent 3.9.0 (beta for V4) client has a pygtk2-based GUI 
that supports queuing and upload rate limiting. I have an experimental 
FC3 package at: http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/BETA/

Paul.