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I personally prefer ktorrent to azureus. It's simpler and I rarely found it lacking in features. (the lacking feature was rss, but it seems they've added that in now.) It's quite light-weight with your resources compared to other clients, which may be useful on an old machine. I found it had all the features that mattered, Azureus is very feature-ful, but I didn't the need for them, so for me it was bloat which hid the features I wanted (maybe i shouldn't have gone straight to the advanced mode). Obviously if you have use for them then that's a different matter. I also found azureus kept crashing for me, and the fact that it's a java app biases me against it. Admittedly it hides the javaness well. http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ Everybody seems to forget the original bittorrent client (called "bittorrent" funnily enough). Quite basic, but works well enough. the website has changed alot since i last went there, so perhaps the program has too? http://www.bittorrent.com You could look at bittornado, which i think is meant to improve on the old bittorrent. It gives you a download window per torrent instead of a single window to manage all of your torrents (as with azureus and ktorrent). It's down to your personal preference which interface you'd prefer. http://www.bittornado.com/ Transmission is a light-weight client which looks a bit like the firefox download window with a few more buttons. transmission.m0k.org/ If you're into the command line you can use bittornado or transmission without a gui. Now I use torrentflux-b4rt. It's a web-based front-end for bittornado/transmission which I run on a linkstation nas box running debian. It might be worth considering if you have a few people in your household using bittorrent, if you're running a server of some sort, or if you want remote access to your torrent client. http://tf-b4rt.berlios.de/ a quick search of the ubuntu repositories also comes up with rtorrent, an ncurses-based one and qtorrent, a qt-based one and if you're a gnome, there's freeloader or gnome-bt-download (this actually uses the original bittorrent client for the downloading) all i can find about a python bittorrent client is a variety of clients written in the python language and some python bindings for bittorrent libraries. My favourite out of all of these was ktorrent, but since i have my linkstation, torrentflux is more useful to me. On 3/24/07, Charlie BT <charlie.cherry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi All > > just installed SUSE 10.2 on a old machine and managed to surprise myself by > getting it to do all what I wanted to in the first day, found a great > install tool called SMART which sorts out dependancies automatically. I have > also found ktorrent, and installed that for the moment so I can use bit > torrents, but I believe a program called python is better, what doe > severyone else use? and is python actually worth bothering about? > > cheers > charlie > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html