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Front-end is Kodi on OpenElec running on a CuBox-i. Back-ends are several VMs. One VM is running a MythTV Back-end server recording from a roof antenna connected to a couple of HDHomeRun boxes saving to a mounted NFS QNAP 12 TB array. Other VMs run Sonarr, Sabnzbd and Sickbeard. Sorarr is also using a Transmission back-end, while Sabnzbd is using a Usenet subscription. Occasionally I also use Netflix and Vudu on a Roku stick which I turn on only when I need it. I white list every device and every port individually, and all things that could be considered borderline legal go through a permanent VPN link on my pfSense VM. Rock solid setup.

Transmission is the way to go these days.

http://www.transmissionbt.com/

Any thoughts on Deluge?
http://deluge-torrent.org/

This: https://trac.transmissionbt.co... and similar behavior is why I will not contribute a satoshi to GNOME regardless of what I think about this specific issue. If they want to shoot themselves in the foot and cripple their now joke of a desktop then fine, that is up to them. Going around asking other projects to remove features to make them "fit in" with their garbage .. that's just taking it too far. Removing features from GTK and making it clear that all those hours writing software based on it was a huge waste of time also makes it very hard to support GNOME a very hard sell.

tablet user: I use it to watch netflix and play games

RMS: You shouldn't use ti for that because it requires non-free software.

tablet user: but if I don't, how can I watch movies and play games.

RMS: you should use a free tablet

tablet: where can I get one and can I use netflix and play angry birds.on it

RMS: Pay with coding skills or money to free a tablet.

Also, these activities don't require non-free software. Download DRM-free videos with Transmission and play them in VLC. Play (and improve!) Angry Tux. It's your own servileness that's holding you back.

a lot of what the GNOME hackers do, goes into the base for many other projects as well.

I think a lot of the hostility comes from seeing GNOME developers take an actively hostile attitude to non-GNOME projects using components like GTK+ that we used to think of as vital infrastructure everybody used.

I'd like to see all Linux projects standardize on Qt as a their Gui toolkit. I understand why everyone has their own but the war is won and Qt won it.

War..Won!? All I see is healthy competition, and personally I run a whole host of Applications that I don't care what toolkit they are in. Having a look around there are some absolutely stellar QT applications http://calibre-ebook.com/, k3b http://www.k3b.org/ (although not in development for a while), MP3 Diags http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/ and of course Clementine http://www.clementine-player.org/about. There are a few programs that can run either that I use Transmission http://www.transmissionbt.com/ and Avidemux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ . But the Bottom line is GTK+ seems as popular as ever, and still more popular than Qt.

What is most bizarre is this about this is LXDE is looking great, a Desktop we don't hear about often enough, and is looking like a desktop I would use...half this discussion is about lets be honest a license subtlety I don't care about.

Linux, ext4, Transmission. I have found no compatible BitTorrent clients that I would want to use, and I wasn't aware that Transmission was "shitty" compared to its competition. I also was unaware that the ext4 file system "sucked."

Last I checked, it still produces ~100 fragments per file, though maybe this has been fixed since I last used it. It has been a while though. (Hey, if something else seems to work adequately or even better for my needs and preferences, why bother using it?)

Supposedly there is a mysterious "preallocation option 2" for the program that fully pre-allocates the space before writing anything according to a forum topic I just found, but I have no idea how to activate it: https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10013

That would at least solve the fragmentation problem (probably the biggest one), but the others would still remain. Lack of original timestamp would still be an annoyance, but the big problem would be network hogging--which, to be fair, can be somewhat alleviated with a lot of tweaking. But then, the lack of necessary tweaking is the entire reason I still use wget to download all files over FTP/HTTP in the first place.

[Pre-post discovery: The file ~/.config/transmission/settings.json houses that option. Nice way to hide it from view... without Google I would've never known it even existed. Pretty much everything else you might need is in the program's GUI/options screen. It looks like they pulled a GNOME here.]

You think *your* examples are bad??! Well, brace yourselves for *this* horrendously inexcusable progress bar failure!! It has been *FIVE YEARS* since this perfectly reasonable and absolutely vital functional operation was requested: https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/1000 ... and *FIVE YEARS!* later, not a single release candidate has been forthcoming from the slacker devs of the Transmission project! It is an outrage! How much longer must the Entitled End Users of the world suffer at the idle hands of callous and indifferent devs??!! Pardon me, I must go and lie down before I dehydrate myself from the righteous mouth-frothing of the oppressed.

I use X over ssh daily for thunderbird, but I'll be first to point out that it is overrated. We have today a vastly superior protocol for GUI over the net: HTTPS. And in my mind, it is up to application developers to give us remote access, the way transmission does it. I am glad that X and Wayland cooperate so smoothly, but I am also glad that we are finally leaving X behind.

Just because young people don't want to know how transmission works?

At least, knowing how to use transmission, saves some car trips to your friends...

All Unices prefer 6to4 to v4, not just Mac OS X. At least Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris do.

The real bug, of course, is not that 6to4 is preferred, it is that 6to4 is unreliable. 6to4 does not monitor its tunnels -- it just assumes that a tunnel will work if there is a global IPv4 address. Which is obviously not necessarily the case in the presence of a v4 firewall.

Do yourself a favour -- disable the 6to4 functionality on your Mac and run Miredo, a Teredo implementation for Unices.

(Some more anecdotical evidence.)

"Wait, you can't get a trojan on your MacOS?"

I Can't. I don't know about you, pathetic loser troll. I NEVER access the Net as root. I NEVER click on attachments that claim to be "NAKED PICS OF (female athlete name here)" and my email app, Eudora, never ever automatically opens attachments or open URLs in Internet Explorer.

"How does your OS determine that it is a trojan and not a remote control app that you want to install?"

I don't use 'remote control apps".

"How does your OS determine that it is a spambot and not a regular IRC bot?"

I NEVER use IRC.

"How does your OS determine that it is a file stealing malware and not a filesharing app?""

I use Transmission as my BitTorrent Client and I ALWAYS have Little Snitch active when online.

In my decades of using Macs, I have encountered exactly ONE virus. It was on a used Color Classic I purchased. The freeware
AV app ' Disinfectant ' cleaned it right up.

Any more questions, pathetic loser troll?

This is probably true; I think qt does a better job of feeling native on other platforms than GTK. I'm not saying that it's impossible to make a cross platform program feel natural, just that exactly duplicating the UI from one system to another won't do. I'd guess that Psi under OS X has some noticeable differences from Psi under Windows.

Transmission is an example of a very succesful cross platform program (it's at least quite popular on both OS X and Linux.) and they actually have not only an OS X native version, but both Qt and GTK versions.

Oh, right, links. All links go to screenshots page, unless the home page has some.

Linux:

1. Transmission (Linux, OSX, BSD, Solaris)
2. Deluge (Linux, mediocre Windows port available)

Windows:

1. uTorrent (Windows, Mac beta port available)

what about transmission? good open source torrent client. (I use it only occasionally as I have Deluge on my Ubuntu box).

GNOME seems to be about on par with Mac OS X in terms of configurability, and I hear that Apple is barely selling any machines these days.

But, seriously.... customization doesn't even need to occur via preference panels (if it needs to happen at all). Developers should strive to write apps that are both simple and intuitive. KDE apps tend to suffer from feature-bloat.

Look at Transmission versus Azureus: Azureus does a whole lot more, but suffers from *serious* feature bloat. Transmission does almost everything you'd want a torrent client to do, but has a dead-simple UI, and uses about a tenth as much RAM. Azureus isn't a KDE application, though it does seem to suffer from the same pitfalls as most KDE apps do.

While I'm ranting, I should add that KDE's tendency to put toolbars with dozens of tiny identical-looking blue icons is absolutely maddening.

GNOME's user interface guidelines seem to be much clearer and consistent than those used by KDE. For now, this is a clear reason to pick one over the other for desktop usage.

*Note that none of this applies to the abomination that is the GIMP.

This makes me think of Transmission. http://www.transmissionbt.com/ It started on the Mac, came to linux, and is now a default Ubuntu package. Of course it spurns the FSF and uses an MIT license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License I wonder if it is because of bone headed stunts like this?

In a similar way, I use tor to route all http tracker requests.

Additionally, I use Transmission along with the Bluetack 'bad ip' blocklist. The blocklist covers various 'bad' netblocks such as record companies etc.

Transmission.

http://www.transmissionbt.com/

Free and open, lightweight Torrent client? Sure, use Transmission.
http://www.transmissionbt.com/

KTorrent is great, and I could rid myself of Azureus once it's available.

try transmission for OS X

There's PLENTY of high quality freeware for the Mac.
http://www.trailrunnerx.com/ If you're into running and like keeping logs.
http://handbrake.fr/ Does DVD->iPod almost seamless. I'm still pounding my head against debian and ffmpeg (What do you MEAN mp4 is an unrecognized format).
http://www.transmissionbt.com/ Is an excellent torrent client, free.

(The later two have since been ported to Linux)

Some of the 'shareware' is pretty cheap also. Graphic converter (http://www.lemkesoft.com/) is nothing short of amazing. $35 too. I'd copy and paste the number of image formats it supports but it might not make it past the filter.

I haven't run across many Linux programs that come close to being that 'pretty' nor as integrated into the OS. I mean Trailrunner will import your GPS info, map it in google earth with one click. It'll track your running times, etc. Sync with your iPod+Nike, heart rate monitors. And it's FREE.

What is available for Ubuntu that won't run on the Mac? Right now my Mac laptop is running Apache2, PHP and MySQL. I have nmap installed and a ton of other 'unix' programs. I always search sourceforge for programs to see if someone's already written something command line.

If you don't like gcc and compiling stuff your self there's always fink which is built around apt-get. fink install ...

There's even a GUI for it so that it's no different than Synaptic.