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Wed Aug 26 10:00:38 CDT 2009 Slackware 13.0 x86_64 is released as stable! Thanks to everyone who helped make this release possible -- see the RELEASE_NOTES for the credits. The ISOs are off to the replicator. This time it will be a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. We're taking pre-orders now at store.slackware.com. Please consider picking up a copy to help support the project. Once again, thanks to the entire Slackware community for all the help testing and fixing things and offering suggestions during this development cycle. As always, have fun and enjoy! -P. |
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Here's a BitTorrent package for Slackware.
Note that we don't ship either wxGTK or wxPython, which are needed for the
bittorrent-console script. I built and installed these, and couldn't justify
the huge size (and assorted build problems) in order to enable an ugly little
dialog box. But feel free to grab those sources and knock yourself out!
I've included a simple script and mailcap entry to allow using the curses
based downloader instead, which will work just the same as the GUI version
but with a lot less library overhead required. For Mozilla, Netscape, and
other browsers that read /etc/mailcap, once you've installed this package
BitTorrent should work right out of the box. If your browser doesn't use
/etc/mailcap, you can set it up to use /usr/bin/bittorrent-xterm as the
helper application for the MIME type application/x-bittorrent.
If you're a command-line user, you may also consider using bittorrent-curses
manually. Here's how:
1. Download the .torrent file into your download directory.
2. At the command line, use the curses version of BitTorrent to download:
bittorrent-curses some-big-file.torrent
This should start the download and bring up a status screen where you can
monitor the download (and upload) progress.
Have fun!
- P.