I have been trying numerous times over the last year to set-up effective bittorrent downloads with Puppy. The nearest success has been just using Opera but the downloads speeds were terribly slow and not that stable.
Generally I have had most success with Azureus, but I guess setting up java and Azureus with puppy might be quite difficult.
Are there any good options?
Bittorrent Downloading with Puppy
Re: Bittorrent Downloading with Puppy
No problem with java under Puppy. There is a dotpup for the JRE in the PSI repos.sml wrote:I have been trying numerous times over the last year to set-up effective bittorrent downloads with Puppy. The nearest success has been just using Opera but the downloads speeds were terribly slow and not that stable.
Generally I have had most success with Azureus, but I guess setting up java and Azureus with puppy might be quite difficult.
Are there any good options?
Haven't seen Azureus as a dotpup but you might find it using Gslapt from Slackware repos - Gslapt also available from the PSI repos
Hope that helps
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Puppy comes with a bittorrent downloader named "transmission".
Optionally you can install Azureus & Java.
http://www.GreenvilleRoad.com/PuppyGuid ... nstallJava
http://www.GreenvilleRoad.com/PuppyGuid ... allAzureus
Optionally you can install Azureus & Java.
http://www.GreenvilleRoad.com/PuppyGuid ... nstallJava
http://www.GreenvilleRoad.com/PuppyGuid ... allAzureus
Heaven is on the way, until then let's get the truth out!
I tried a couple of times to use the BitTorrent client built-in to Puppy 2.11 - Transmission, I guess is its name.
I tried to download a 350 Mbyte file a few times - each time unsuccessfully. The computer had 512 Mb memory and it should have been OK. The Free Memory display did not update properly - it did not really show the progress of the download. Well, then I gave up, I thought that it was still after all because of the memory or something.
I then tried in a (Vmware virtual) Puppy Linux computer with certainly enough memory. And it failed in there too. I rechecked with BitLord in Windows and torrent itself was OK.
Then I tried on my (virtual) Puppy Linux computer a smaller file, around 120 Mbytes, and it worked OK.
In all of these cases the download was as fast as expected. It is just that in the end it failed - basically after it had downloaded everything. Well, in all of my Linux cases, I was using a boot-CD without any hard disk usage.
I tried to download a 350 Mbyte file a few times - each time unsuccessfully. The computer had 512 Mb memory and it should have been OK. The Free Memory display did not update properly - it did not really show the progress of the download. Well, then I gave up, I thought that it was still after all because of the memory or something.
I then tried in a (Vmware virtual) Puppy Linux computer with certainly enough memory. And it failed in there too. I rechecked with BitLord in Windows and torrent itself was OK.
Then I tried on my (virtual) Puppy Linux computer a smaller file, around 120 Mbytes, and it worked OK.
In all of these cases the download was as fast as expected. It is just that in the end it failed - basically after it had downloaded everything. Well, in all of my Linux cases, I was using a boot-CD without any hard disk usage.