Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)
 

Update (11/4/08) : Qwerty has made a newer 1.34 build for Diablo and put it in diablo extras if you prefer obtaining from maemo repos. Just enable the extras repo within your application manager, and 'Browse installable applications' to find it :)

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I have compiled Transmission for OS2008 and OS2007. The original project website is : http://transmission.bt.com/

Looks great and has nice progress bars and multiple simultaneous downloads. You can get information on any download and see all kinds of statistics and even a 'piece availability' graph.

I would suggest using it on less expensive sd cards until real world tests determine prolonged effects.

Also, it looks like transmission will be the default bittorrent client for Ubuntu probably for its simplicity and because it works well and is pretty fast.

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NOTE : Diablo OS Update (so far) seems to have fixed the network dropping issue. This new firmware seems to cause even old versions to run without disconnects. Hopefully this holds true over time and applies to other applications like openshh as well.

Last Update 9/03 (Diablo build of 1.33) :
Upstream changelog

[Diablo users should grab rev27 build here] :
http://wardenclyffetower.com/MaemoFi....rev27.all.deb

[OS2008 users should grab rev25 build here] :
http://wardenclyffetower.com/MaemoFi...nook.rev25.deb

[OS2007 users should grab rev24 build here] :
http://wardenclyffetower.com/MaemoFi...bora.rev24.deb
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Note : You'll have to save torrent and then open it with Transmission.
Note : Downloading large files might freeze up for a min or so at first, while initializing file space.
Note : You can get the web browser to automatically open torrents in transmission by using dbus-switchboard utility here

Advanced users can download the extra command line utilities (proxy, daemon, remote, and cli) which i did not test or include in installer, from tar here (Updated to Version 1.04 source release) :
http://wardenclyffetower.com/MaemoFi...ls.1.10.tar.gz

This is a photoshop which is pixel for pixel perfect for what you'd see if you actually downloaded these files ;) :

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)
 

Excellent work! Can you get this into Maemo somehow?

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)
 

What... you mean repository? I will have to wait until i've tested it a bit, then possibly.

Who knows maybe there are better clients, this is to fill immediate void... although it does look pretty good... dialogs are a little cramped but they work pretty good.

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)
 

Yeah, a repo would be rather useful, especially with the new backup restore features in OS2008.

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)
 

Sorry if I was over-eager.

I don't recall seeing any other torrent clients for Maemo...

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)
 

No problem... i just built it like 5 mins before i posted it. I feel it only necessary to test before i would post it to a repo.

This post -does- have a link to a deb installer for maemo though.

Yea theres just ctorrent on repos now and thats command line (by necessity probably)... my point is a whole range of new apps might be 2008 compatible now that they have improved gtk to 2.10.? + cairo.

I built a version for 2007 but it seems to want to crash with glib errors. I tried downloading the same torrent on my 2008 build and its purring along very stable so far.

This might prove to stay an 2008 build but i'll test a little more to make sure thats the case.

Feel free to provide feedback and if everyone is golden i will post to a maemo repo.

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)
 

Well there is ctorrent, but that program is unreliable and pretty buggy (stops downloading randomly, crashes and sets memory card to read only, etc.). I will certainly try this transmission out. Thanks pipeline, and keep up the testing/developing.

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)
 

I've installed it and it looks and works wonderfully! I will report back on any bugs.

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)
 

Dl'ed installed and it seems to be working very well. The spacing on the menus is a little off but still completely usable GUI. Good stuff!

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)
 

Great work man. I thought that OS2008 was supposed to be able to play many many more movie types? That was what I was most excited about with the new upgrade but I'm not sure it got implemented exactly.

Regardless, thanks for putting together a great program!