Showing posts with label BitTorret. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BitTorret. Show all posts
Ade Malsasa Akbar Friday, November 16, 2018 at 13:20

How To Publish a GNU/Linux ISO Torrent Yourself


Suppose a new GNU/Linux distro ISO image comes out without torrent. For example, deepin is known to be like that. You have downloaded the ISO and made sure it matched official checksum. So, how to publish torrent download for this huge ISO you have? Actually it's very simple, just use your BitTorrent client program to create a .torrent file and share this file to the internet! This article shows how to do it easily with KTorrent on KDE neon operating system. Despite that, you can also exercise this tutorial on any other OS as well. Enjoy sharing!

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Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 12:32

Add Multiple Trackers to Transmission BitTorrent

While downloading GNU/Linux ISO files, you may find some torrents have slow speed because the tracker being inactive. Often, this problem can be solved by adding more trackers, especially if they provide more seeders for your ISO being downloaded. Fortunately, you don't have to find out trackers manually as there are many, many people out of there sharing list of them for you (even annually!). This short tutorial shows how to do it by example Ubuntu 18.04 torrent. Enjoy!

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Damar Riyadi Sunday, July 29, 2012 at 14:08

BitTorrent Client Choices for Ubuntu Users

Hello readers! Good to see you again. Today, I'd like to write a post about some BitTorrent Client choices for Ubuntu users. Before we continue to the main point of this post, please let me put the definition of BitTorrent taken from Wikipedia:

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data over the Internet. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files and it has been estimated that peer-to-peer networks collectively have accounted for roughly 43% to 70% of all Internet traffic (depending on geographical location) as of February 2009.
Well, BitTorrent client application is required for downloading files via BitTorrent protocol. Fortunately, there are many BitTorrent Client applications available for Ubuntu. Below are some of them.

1. Vuze
Vuze claims that it is the most bittorrent app on earth. It features torrent search so you can look for available torrent to download from Vuze itself. It also has media player so you can watch movie while downloading it.


Install Vuze on Ubuntu:
  • sudo apt-get install vuze

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