[ltp] Off topic about Bit Torrent
Marius Gedminas
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 7 Apr 2004 15:24:55 +0300
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On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:10:35PM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Don Perley wrote:
> > The only down side I've seen is that it needs to be running on a graphi=
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> > console (whether X or windows). If the computer needs to be shared=20
> > among family members then in Linux you can't just leave it running and=
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> > log off. In XP it can keep running in a swapped out login.
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> This was already possible on Linux long before Windows supported it.=20
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> You just need to run two or more X servers (first time I did this, it was
> on a 33 MHz i486 with 8 MB RAM, so quite long ago) I think some distros
> even support this out of the box a user friendly/understandable way today,
> like XP does.
Or use xvnc.
BTW mldonkey also supports BitTorrent, and it doesn't need X.
Marius Gedminas
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We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers.
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