RE: [opensuse-gnome] Default torrentclient in Gnome
As the person that did the initial review[0] of BitTorrent clients over ~18months ago for 11.0, it was myself that recommended Monsoon. The choice was not mine alone but that of the community. As such if the community feels it is prudent to review this choice and make ammendments then I am all for it. In my review I had Transmission as the #2 choice so I'm happy to use that. As for lack of releases for Monsoon, I'm not so sure that is necessarily a bad thing. I have experienced very few issues with it and there have been a couple of releases since the initial inclusion in 11.0. As for others using it, one distro I know of is Foresight, so we are not alone (and so what if we were?) ;-) As I have very little usage of other distros what do the likes of Fedora/Debian/Mandriva/Ubuntu/etc. use, also what is the default client upstream? Regards, Andy [0] - http://en.opensuse.org/User:FunkyPenguin/TorrentReview -- Sent from a Nokia E71 Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin. openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org . -----Original Message----- From: Bjørn Lie Sent: 21/03/2009 21:19:17 Subject: [opensuse-gnome] Default torrentclient in Gnome We've had Monsoon as the default torrent client for some releases now, and as far as I can tell it's not been a great success. Not much has happend upstream, and no other distros (that I know of) has made monsoon their client too. I propose we reopen the default torrent client discussion again, just to see what the general opinion is. I've personally tried to use it, but never felt comfortable with it. Normally ending up in me installing Transmission or Azureus. What do you all think? Bjørn Lie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
sø., 22.03.2009 kl. 20.00 +0000, skrev Andrew Wafaa:
As the person that did the initial review[0] of BitTorrent clients over ~18months ago for 11.0, it was myself that recommended Monsoon. The choice was not mine alone but that of the community. As such if the community feels it is prudent to review this choice and make ammendments then I am all for it.
In my review I had Transmission as the #2 choice so I'm happy to use that. As for lack of releases for Monsoon, I'm not so sure that is necessarily a bad thing. I have experienced very few issues with it and there have been a couple of releases since the initial inclusion in 11.0. As for others using it, one distro I know of is Foresight, so we are not alone (and so what if we were?) ;-)
As I have very little usage of other distros what do the likes of Fedora/Debian/Mandriva/Ubuntu/etc. use, also what is the default client upstream?
Regards,
Andy
[0] - http://en.opensuse.org/User:FunkyPenguin/TorrentReview --
Nobody is pointing fingers, I too voted for Monsoon as the default client. That's not the point. The problem with using a unknown/unused client is that we are the only ones providing bugs and/or patches. And since I have a strong belife that most of us deletes monsoon for a different client, even less bugs get upstreamed. I'm guilty of not bothering to report bugs in Monsoon, since there are such good alternatives available (in my case Transmission and Vuze(Azureus). Every time I try Monsoon it dies on me if I add 4-5 torrents seeds + a couple downloading. If it does not die, it just stops downloading at any given moment. Now the fact that I have issues with running Monsoon isn't a argument against Monsoon, but the lack of will from me (and others I think) to write bugs and whatnot is. As for default torrent clients for other distros (under Gnome) Fedora - Transmission http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/Download/BitTorrent Ubuntu - Transmission https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitTorrent Mandriva - Transmission (was Deluge) http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Bittorrent Debian - Don't know, my google-fu failed me, and I tried asking in #debian but didn't get any response. Looks like we need to get with the program :P Bjørn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
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