Torrent client suggestions

[Ian Malone]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> >> Can anyone suggest a good torrent client? I use Fedora Core 5. The the
>> >> python Bittorrent is fast and light, but gives me corrupted video
>> >> files when its done. Azerus give me perfect files, but it sucks the
>> >> life out of dev/testing box to the point where the display takes
>> >> minutes to wakeup after it goes to sleep from lack of use.
>> >>
>> >> Suggestions of something inbetween would be nice.
>> >>
>>
>> Azureus performs better using Sun Java installed using JPackage,
>> see <http://www.city-fan.org/tips/JpackageJava>.
> 
> Can those coexist with what wever (the gcj I assume) that it is
> currently running on?
> 
> 
Yes, the alternatives system lets you have both installed and switch
between them:
<http://www.city-fan.org/tips/JpackageJava#head-eb6dc2dead9941599372f6ac183a76199470515c>


I imagine there's some way to arrange for an application to use
a different Java to the rest of the machine, but I don't know
how.  (Possibly changing paths in its start-up script to point
to the different environment)

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imalone