J_K9 @ Linux

HOW TO: Setup a Web-based BitTorrent Client

How many times have you been stuck at work when the latest episode of a podcast such as LugRadio has become available for download, or the latest version of your favourite Linux distribution has been released? Wouldn’t it be really useful if you could access a server at home through your web browser and order it to download that file, so that it’s waiting for you when you get there? Or, if you like to sleep in peace with your desktop off, wouldn’t it be great if you could remotely access a BitTorrent client on the home server in your attic and tell it to run the downloads while you sleep?

The simple answer? Yes, it would: and I’m going to show you exactly how to set it up.

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Seven.Ten Degrees of Modularisation

Ubuntu Server is a popular Linux server distribution which has been gaining some good ground over the past few years, but is still behind its main commercial rivals: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. However, one of the new, experimental (but stable) features in Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition is set to change the course of all server Operating Systems in the near future, and that feature is Tasks.

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Ubuntu 7.10—Up To Standards

As always, Ubuntu’s latest release doesn’t fail to disappoint. In fact, I’m severely taken aback by some of the background improvements which perhaps have not earned as much credit as they ought to have.

One such improvement is font rendering. Even with sub-pixel font smoothing on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), the font rendering still wasn’t great. Now, it’s on par with Mac OS X—yes, the font rendering really has improved that much!

There are also many other improvements in Bluetooth support, Compiz (which is now enabled by default), desktop graphics, usability and much more, but instead of repeating the same spiel I’ll just point you to some existing articles, including some about the Release Candidate (spoil-sports!).

• Lunapark6: Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) Desktop Edition
• polishlinux.org » Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
• Quick Look at Ubuntu 7.10 Release Candidate | tuxmachines.org
• Ubuntu’s New Gutsy Gibbon Brings Linux Out of the Jungle

What Would You Like To Read?

I have a few interesting and exciting articles up my sleeve which I now have an entire week to write (you can hold me to this statement, by the way), but there is so much going on in the Linux world these days that it really is difficult to come up with good, enlightening, entertaining articles.

So, why not help me out—which How To or article have you not already seen on the internet which you would like me to write and which is relevant to Linux or Open Source? Go on; surprise me.

P.S. I can’t wait to try Gutsy!