Crystal Posted September 21, 2007 Report Share Posted September 21, 2007 There are several threads of how to run uTorrent on Linux with Wine.Sadly, Wine doesn't run very well on BSDs. ( But they are able to run Linux binaries ) When browsing the forums I found this old post.Although uTorrent is lightweight, it is missing the patented innovations BitTorrent has made at the protocol level. It is also lacking an implementation for Mac and Linux. We will improve uTorrent in these arenas.A year has passed - without a Linux / Mac version. Since uTorrent is written in C (the native language of any *nix) , and OS X running on a BSD Kernel,shouldn't porting be a snap ?Are there still plans for *Nix at all ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 21, 2007 Report Share Posted September 21, 2007 There aren't plans considering WINE works fine.It's not as much as a snap as you'd think, because of the number of windows specific api calls used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crystal Posted September 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2007 Ah well, that's not the answer I wanted to hear, but thx anyway.Just a few thoughts./*uTorrent even runs on Win 95 - so much for API calls . .You're not having trouble with "DOS" , do you ? */I think the reasons for not developing for Nix are of political / financial nature.Since you haven't said anything about Mac, I suspect there'll be an OS X version coming soon.That's fine with me, BSDs can run those binaries as well.But what about the "unwashed" Linux mob ?Ah well, as if I'd care . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Alderaan Posted September 21, 2007 Report Share Posted September 21, 2007 Wow... "political / financial nature"?Dude, get a life. Not everyone and everything is set against *nix.iirc Windows has had APIs since version 1.afaik µtorrent is written from scratch. Its not using common c libraries or anything (I'm not a C programmer so I wouldn't know what precisely that means) and it therefor probably takes quite some adjustments, if not outright rewriting, to make it compatible with other OSs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 21, 2007 Report Share Posted September 21, 2007 That it's programmed in "C" means nothing. It uses the WinAPI directly and extensively (which is part of why it's so small). It's not a simple port. The OSX port will have a lot of code rewriting and will also be custom tailored for OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nedkelly Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 What about deluge-torrent it can almost the same as utorrent, and does not use much system resources either? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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