Category: GNU/Linux

I’ve the opportunity to try rTorrent today, it is a lightweight bittorrent client that uses ncurses as its user-interface. Personally, I’m impressed with all the features included in this small and seemingly simple bittorent client.

Among the feature included in rTorrent are :

• Partial downloading of multi-file torrents
• Upload/Download throttling
• Task prioritization
• Protocol Encryption
• Supports Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X

rTorrent itself is written with performance in mind and it uses the smallest amount of memory compared to other bittorent client.

One of the advantage of using rTorrent is – it can be used under command line (CLI) environment without the need of an X server. This means with rTorrent, you can download torrents on another computer by using remote connection (for example SSH).

rTorrent session can also be multiplexed with the additional use of GNU screen utility, which enables you to focus on other work while monitoring your downloads.

In my personal opinion, the best thing about rTorrent is because it supports bittorrent protocol encryption which is important to me because of my ISP’s traffic shaping policy on P2P trafffic, which kinda lame – I know.

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Here’s how to to enable the new spiffy Desktop Effects feature on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn).

1. First, from the Desktop, go to System->Preference. Click on Desktop Effect
2. Select Enable Desktop Effect, Click OK
3. Watch your Windows Wobbles as it being moved!

Note 1 : Some people reported this feature causes serious desktop bug when both ‘Wobble’ and ‘Workspace on a cube’ feature are enabled at the same time.

Note 2: This is not beryl, please refer to HowtoForge’s article :Installing Beryl On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Desktop With An ATI Radeon Graphic Card for that.

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Here is a couple of performance tweak guide for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn that I tried personally and found to be effective.

• Feisty Performance: “Fly Like A Butterfly”
• Hacking Ubuntu to Improve Performance: Tuning Kernel Parameters

Note : Your mileage may vary depending on your computer setup, system usage and other factors.

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Finally i had the chance to install Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on my desktop after being swamped out with (paper) work for days.

The Installation was a breeze, the Ubuntu team managed to do a pretty good job here. The LiveCD let me do a lot of stuff during the installation process, such as getting online for IRC, surfing the web and reading my emails.

The LiveCD was able to detect my Windows XP Professional partition, and launched Windows Migration Tool for me to migrate my Windows documents and User account. The Installation itself was a breeze, and I’ve a Linux operating system ready to to use within minutes!

Most importantly, my desktop pc hardware (printer, scanner, bluetooth dongle, card reader, graphic card) are supported out from the box, with no restricted drivers needed.

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