Bittorrent - how to use on Linux?

[Craig Thomas]

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 09:47 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 02:13, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > What do  you nean by 'tolerate' Java? What are the disadvantages of
> > installing Java?
> 
> It's big, it's slow, 

True.  Always improving and computers are getting faster and faster...

> it has it's own concept of human interface instead
> of inheriting that from the windowing toolkit; 

Consequence of 'write once, run anywhere' as different platforms use
their own windowing mechanisms a single java based solution was/is a
better fit for java's goals than the horror of AWT. Also, there is work
being done to remedy the windowing toolkit problem, at least for gnome :

http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bin/view

> it isn't part of the
> base distribution so you have to track updates separately.  

It will be for FC4 :) so you wont have to.  And it's FOSS java.

> And for the
> paranoid set - it's controlled by a company with its own agenda.

Sun's Java is not really controlled by _one_ company [the name is, but
not the code base].  Research the JCP.  

-- 
Craig Thomas <cjtinhp at optonline.net>