> On Friday 12 January 2007 11:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> However suse appear to be a bit behind on this as the latest version >> is 5.03. > Indeed but that is reasonalbe because the fair-exchange algorithms > appear to have been tightened up in the latest version. Thus programs > take a lot longer to d/l. >
Don't forget Bram has joined the commercial world. He is widely regarded by the BT community as having "sold out". Sadly I don't believe he will necessarily be leading the future development of the protocol. This may, unfortunately, lead to some fragmentation, with different clients proceeding in different directions on some features. > fwiw, I'd suggest that Reg sticks with Ktorrent, which works very nicely > for me, with the proviso that one should eschew the kernel versions > which have the recently discovered file system bug, which caused > ktorrent to occasionally never stop downloading under some > circumstances. > > -- > CS > FWIW I think rtorrent is the best bt client for linux, by a country mile. I am running it on freebsd. > >
