I really, really like that, because searching for - ahem - Linux ISOs is not just a matter of what best matches my search terms, but what matches and is available. And not for any reasons except that it does those things well.įirst, as you can see above, pirate-get by default returns results in descending number of seeds. I could leave it at that, and allow you to glean from that what you will, but there are a couple of things that pirate-get does that are worth pointing out. Pirate-get, as you might infer, performs a search of the world’s most infamous bittorrent tracker, and returns the results in the console. What you do with these things is none of my business. I have to remind myself that today’s first treasure is just a tool, and a tool is just a tool. Like I said, it appears to be working, even if the “interface” wasn’t doing much to tell me that. I’m willing to give gtorrent-ncurses the benefit of a gestation time, and come back to it later. They are suspiciously missing from the text-only version though, and in this day and age, more than a dozen years after the original BitTorrent, it’s a little hard to overlook. I only looked briefly at gtorrent’s full graphical interface, so it may be that it’s possible to get those things from the full X-based UI. No help screens, priority settings, peer lists, sharing ratios, tab completion for adding files … the list goes on. But that interface looks suspiciously broken, and as best I can tell, there are only two controls: “a” for add a torrent, and “q” for quit.
It looks like a good start, and as best I can tell it is actually working. That doesn’t mean it’s the best way of doing things though, and when you stop trying new things, that’s when you get old.īut gtorrent-ncurses - the text-only option to the full gtorrent - might not be the one to take the throne. But overall, it has been a reliable standby.
It has its shortcomings and at times it seems to lack some features that the new kids have. It’s no secret I’ve been an rtorrent fan for nearly a decade now.
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