Comments on: Linux Torrent Client

By: vijay pratap

vijay pratap — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:15:46 +0000

Great article sir can u have link of RHEL 6 as its has a lot cahngesnew in ext4also

By: TheLinuxBlog.com

TheLinuxBlog.com — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:51:38 +0000

Hey Wuzzy you’re right, however most people associate a .torrent file with a client, so that is who the post is targeted at. Perhaps I should have worded it, to “download a torrent file” rather than .torrent. Potato, Potartoe, French Fry – its the same thing.

By: Wuzzy

Wuzzy — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:20:43 +0000

In order to download a .torrent file you need a client. Bullshit! To download a .torrent file you don't need any specific client. The .torrent file contains only meta data about the file you want to download like trackers, the hash(es), etc. and is only some bytes or kilobytes small. I've never seen that someone shared a .torrent file via BitTorrent, .torrent files itself are usually downloaded via HTTP or FTP. The .torrent is not the file you actually want to download. So the sentence should state that you need a client in order to download the file/files which is/are described in the .torrent file.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:51:25 +0000

Might be of use to someone, I thought it was a good guide on .torrent files

By: Owen

Owen — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:40:00 +0000

Hmm, I’ve never used it as the bittorrent-curses has always served me well. I’ll have to check it out.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:27:17 +0000

In my opinion rTorrent is the best command line client that exists.