Comments on: uTorrent For Linux Is Coming, Finally

By: dodo

dodo — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:53:06 +0000

I would probably give it a shot. I really liked using it back when I used to use windows. Also, if you are so paranoid and worried about the source I am sure the final version of the application can be reverse engineered for inspection…

By: nunya

nunya — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:33:43 +0000

If its not open source, they can shove it right up their arse, I’ll stick with ‘transmission’ or ‘rtorrent’ or any of a dozen other OPEN SOURCE products.

Not to mention, who knows what backdoors they might stick in their lame ass utorrent client, if they wont reveal source.

By: Vishal Telangre

Vishal Telangre — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:28:10 +0000

I just hate those all third-party tools and packages which are not based on open source philosophy!!! If I’m a ubuntu user (then obviously a BitTorrent user), then why I chose to such a non-sense and useless torrent client?

-1 from me!

By: Corporate Monkey

Corporate Monkey — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:13:33 +0000

Deluge is awesome and it is similar to Utorrent. Since Deluge exists on Linux, I dont find myself wanting to migrate.

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Un mundo libre » Blog Archive » uTorrent para GNU/Linux en camino — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:15:14 +0000

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By: lmao

lmao — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:12:20 +0000

all respect to utorrent, but do a research before you start. GNU/linux is full of great torrent clients already. In fact, i miss ktorrent when im forced to use windows.

By: clarjon1

clarjon1 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:07:09 +0000

122
Sorry, i’ll try to save the monitor paper by using less break lines. We happy now?

By: Anoymous

Anoymous — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:36:22 +0000

@24

Because it happens that you know what to do with the source code of the Nvidia drivers right!?!?!?

By: fxvcxxvc

fxvcxxvc — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:40:26 +0000

112, stop wasting break lines. Not only that but have a point, not just bashing around. Everyone’s comment isn’t that important at all.

By: What I Use to get Things Done on my Lucid Lynx « Technically Possible

What I Use to get Things Done on my Lucid Lynx « Technically Possible — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:22:09 +0000

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By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:22:48 +0000

uTorrent For Linux Is Coming, Finally | TorrentFreak…

Ever since uTorrent was released, Mac and Linux users have begged the developers to release a version of the client designed to work on their computers. In 2006, when uTorrent was sold to BitTorrent Inc., the company announced that a Mac version was co…

By: noCS

noCS — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:53:42 +0000

Normally I really wouldn’t care if a program is closed source or not on Linux, but in a case where a certain lobbying group could slip something in the program virtually undetected, I need to see some source.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:57:04 +0000

We don’t need closed source mpaa tracking software on our backs, thanks but no thanks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:47:38 +0000

I’ll stick with rTorrent…

By: -

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:32:24 +0000

stop flaming if utorrent user love this tool then thay will use’t if not then thay won’t

By: slinky

slinky — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:31:15 +0000

meh, what’s the big deal?

rtorrent is the finest torrent client out there. If people want gui just use deluge.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:14:48 +0000

“With the the release of the Mac version, Linux users were the only ones left out in the cold, but this is about to change.”

The whole world is not Windows+Mac+Linux! Perhaps marginal, but lots of other systems exist.

“We obviously want to do our best to deliver whenever we see a good fit between our goals and capabilities and what our users say they want.”

But if, what the users want, doesn’t fit with BitTorrent, Inc.’s goals, they will ignore it.

I have to agree I expect µTorrent for Linux to be way worse than the Windows version, but the closed source means little. I need to give KTorrent a go, but rtorrent is pure garbage.

By: AnonRock

AnonRock — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:46:21 +0000

“…in common with other versions of uTorrent it wont be Open Source.”

wat

By: uTorrent para GNU/Linux en camino | Ayuda Linux

uTorrent para GNU/Linux en camino | Ayuda Linux — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:55:54 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:30:37 +0000

As for uTorrent and the fact its source is closed – I’m sure that more than 2/3 of the people who say “I don’t want it because it’s not open source on my open source system…” no (almost) nothing about open source and its (dis)advantages. Not to mention that many of you use closed source and propriety software in your Linux distro without even knowing it. :D

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:28:04 +0000

Transmission works fine for me. Deluge is already a pretty good alternative of uTorrent in Linux (and even offers a thing or two that uTorrent doesn’t have). I like uTorrent and used it when I had Windows because of it’s great performance and features. I’m not sure it’ll work that good for Linux though. It’s not about closed or opened source. It’s about the fact that there are maybe hundreds of different distributions (and believe me – not all are based on Debian, RHL or SUSE). That leads to many stability and performance issues even by propriety software. I’m curious though how things will work out for the little guy. :)

By: uTorrent para GNU/Linux en camino | Linux Zone

uTorrent para GNU/Linux en camino | Linux Zone — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:57:50 +0000

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By: clarjon1

clarjon1 — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:57:07 +0000

What.
The.
Hell.

Alright, first off.

I am an avid Linux user
I run PCLinuxOS 2010, i’ve been running Linux for 8 years.
I enjoy my open source apps
Love ‘em to death.

HOWEVER.

There are quite a few things that I am not liking seeing here, especially from the Linux community.

Number One: ODEAR IT IS CLOSED SOURCE BAD BAD BAD!

Alright.
Fine, boycott closed proprietary software. Hope you don’t have an ATI, or Nvidia card, or use a broadcom Wifi card, for example.
Why?
Well, dontcha know that they use PROPRIETARY CLOSED SOURCE modules and firmware?
OooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooh but that’s different! you say.
NO. it is NOT different.
Closed source is closed source is closed source is closed source. You don’t pick and choose.

Again. Closed source is closed source. Got that?
Now, go boycott your closed-source apps, let’s see how long you last with your 3d gaming without your acellerated 3d hardware.

Yeah.

That’s what I thought.

Although closed source can be seen as hostile, there are times when it can be beneficial.

Did anyone ever think that perhaps why uTorrent is closed source is due to, oh I don’t know, perhaps agreements with other companies, or perhaps that’s their business model.
What a shocker
They need to have a way to keep money coming in so they can keep developing!

Oh, the horror! After all, everyone knows that hard working developers don’t need a paying job, or already have a good one!

Granted, they could release an open source fork of their product, like Sun did with StarOffice and OpenOffice back in the day… They just might do that!
Or like with TuxRacer
or Wine, the wine team have a proprietary version of wine out, how eeeeeeeeeevil

*eyeroll*

Oh, another one, TeamViewer. Great app, very easy, works equally well on all three platforms, but is closed source. Oh my, how evil and twisted of them.

Oh, and there’s Flash.

Shall I go on?

My second point, why it is needed.
Sure, it may end up being crap, but it’s brand recognition. As one commenter has said, or at least referred to, earlier is that people will be more willing to switch if they have a few FAMILIAR things to work with.

Switching from Windows to Mac? Hey, there’s iTunes, Firefox, you can even get Word for the Mac. Oh, look, people are happy, they have things they know how to use!

Same kind of thing with Linux.
Sure, you can make it look like Linux, but a lot of users are not friendly towards a little something called the Learning Curve.

Get ‘em used to things like TeamViewer when helpin them. Introduce them to Linux. “Oh look, uTorrent, i know how to use that! And look, Teamviewer! And firefox! and OpenOffice!”

The more apps that are available between the operating systems, to use as a jumping point, the better, in my opinion.

But hey.
That’s just me.
Don’t have to take my word for it.

By: uTorrent llegará pronto a GNU/Linux « Red-Orbita

uTorrent llegará pronto a GNU/Linux « Red-Orbita — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:04:36 +0000

[...] BitTorrent, y la gente vota a los que cree más interesantes. El apoyo a la versión para Linux ha sido masivo, y eso ha provocado la decisión del os [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:17:31 +0000

Sorry – I’m not letting a closed source application on my open system. Instead of protecting your freedom allowing you to download anything, actually uTorrent restricts everything even further, since you do not have access to change it.

By: Utorrent for Linux

Utorrent for Linux — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:50:33 +0000

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By: Patience

Patience — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:32:59 +0000

I think I’ll stick with µTorrent 1.6.1 Build 490 with Wine 1.2.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_utorrent/2253/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:02:51 +0000

Ktorrent is simply better. We don’t need proprietary and closed source utorrent for linux

By: foo

foo — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:46:04 +0000

no, thanks.

By: Stark

Stark — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:37:28 +0000

I’m amazed that developers still bother with Linux.

I guess it’s hard to learn from the mistakes of others, but I’m sure they will learn from their own.

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uTorrent vihdoin myös Linuxille | Digilelut — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:04:29 +0000

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By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:51:25 +0000

I used uTorrent with wine after switching to Ubuntu in ’06 and trying a few linux clients. I didn’t like them. Then I got more comfortable with the cli and tried out rTorrent. It works very well. rTorrent also seems to out-perform uTorrent…untested tho.

I’ll Stick with rTorrent.

In anycase I would agree that a uTorrent port be opensource

@53 I’d like to see your sources.

By: hms-one

hms-one — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:55:24 +0000

The problem with closed source software for Linux is that it is generally unsupported by the creators. They just can’t keep up with the faster dev cycle of OSS.

libflash 10.XX is STILL buggy. It still leaves full screen when you adjust the volume and it still is incompatible with Firefox 3.6 + Flashblock.(white box!) I sometimes also get the ‘please install flash’ icon and some players(like [as]) just don’t work at all. Closed software that gets ported to ‘nix is invariably buggy, and users are not allowed to fix it because of copyright. Users are left to beg corporations to make their products work right with their systems and are generally ignored while simple bugs go unfixed release after release despite massive user feedback from the Linux community.

If all bittorrent inc. are gonna do is release a broken, incompatible, feature stripped POS and then not allow users to fix it, then they shouldn’t even bother. If they actually intend to build a real ‘nix client AND support it, well good luck and more power to ya.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:28:40 +0000

On windows I always used utorrent, then I went to linux and found deluge.

Dont really need this anymore..but meh cool that their making it for the people that requested it I suppose.

By: freeman

freeman — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:56:16 +0000

qBittorrent Rocks!!!!! Who needs uTorrent?!?!

By: gnusay

gnusay — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:47:13 +0000

#comment-666254
50 Jun 02, 2010 at 06:58 by chuche

about the GTK+ apps look issue:
please try http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Styles/GtkStyle or http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9714

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:47:28 +0000

Pah! KTorrent is much better.

By: gnusay

gnusay — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:36:01 +0000

boycott closed-source. period.

By: Tux_the_penguin

Tux_the_penguin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:30:58 +0000

Transmission FTW

By: Ansari

Ansari — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:35:44 +0000

A lot of closed source ports end up being really crippled. The excuses are endless. I use KTorrent right now and I’m very pleased with it.

By: Coutreau

Coutreau — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:44:20 +0000

I can only hope for linux users that their version of utorrent won’t be the same pile of shit the OSX version is. OSX version is a crippled waste of HD space (though significantly better than the first release [not saying much]). They basically told all mac users, “Oh hey, here’s utorrent, but don’t expect the same functionality as the Windows version”. Linux users can probably expect the same.

By: suikodian

suikodian — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:09:00 +0000

I never begged for a release of uTorrent. KTorrent is much better in my opinion.

By: ted

ted — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:48:31 +0000

I like all the bashing against closed sourced. *ALL* the torrent clients are crap when it comes to linux client, libtorrent is nice but does support encryption or all that fancy gizmozes and gadgets. Im tired of running utorrent in wine and would like a linux binary so it can play nice in bsd land

By: maCfatDonalds

maCfatDonalds — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:43:41 +0000

No wonder linux users crying for it next to crappy bt clients such as Azureus which slow like hell, bittornado based clients which fail to dl many torrents.
Torrentflux is long dead etc.
You can use bitthief which is gonna eat your whole cpu time but queuing in the torrents to it is a pain in the ass.

Hope they will keep utorrent as fast as it is in windows.

By: crux

crux — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:02:15 +0000

what does nobody like transmission? seems pretty lightweight to me, and it has integrated blocklists too..

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:56:33 +0000

Big Fucking Deal. uTorrent isn’t even open source. Transmission ftw.

By: uTorrent For Linux Is Coming, Finally « Chicago Mac/PC Support

uTorrent For Linux Is Coming, Finally « Chicago Mac/PC Support — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:45:52 +0000

[...] For Linux Is Coming, Finally Lots of educational and useful and non illegal uses that this is used for. I use torrents to download new Linux versions for example. It is faster than the [...]

By: Dr

Dr — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:32:41 +0000

on a 1 Gbps line uTorrent is absolutly the nuts! :)
The speed I see is unreal sometime’s
around 50.5 MB/s upload on a Pack.
Thanks
Dr

By: The United Hackers Association

The United Hackers Association — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:50:30 +0000

won’t matter they are making p2p software illegal in canada conservatives with help of liberals