internet software

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GTorrentViewer logo

Software >

http://gtorrentviewer.sourceforge.net/

GTorrentViewer is a GTK2-based viewer and editor for BitTorrent meta files. It is able to retrieve information from trackers, check files, show detailed information, and modify .torrent files without having to start downloading.

The purpose of GTorrentViewer is to give the ability to see and modify all the possible information from .torrent files without having to start downloading and the ability to see in real time the current number of seeds and peers on the torrent, so you will always know the status before start the download.

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Bitnami_logo_2013.png

Software > Bundled server software >

(on Wikipedia)
MediaWiki: https://bitnami.com/stack/mediawiki
https://bitnami.com/

I would NEVER EVER recommend regular humans go anywhere near running raw server software on their desktop. It’s a horror – I mean truly a horror unlike any you’ve ever imagined – to get that shit to work, to lock it down and to keep it running. If for some reason you did want to run a server, use a proper server distribution. A branch will eventually crop up for Unity Linux I’m sure, but there are Linux and BSD distributions which excel at this task.

So for us regular humans, a LAMP (software bundle) is the best thing to use. This is a collection of all the necessary tools which have been pre-configured to cooperate and bundled together in one .. much easier to use package. This concept has become wildly improved over the years, and I’ve used a bunch of different packages.



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Software > VoIP, Instant messagers >

https://github.com/pi0/mangler [ 1 ] was www.mangler.org

The linux alternative to Ventrilo.

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Footnotes

^ 1 was www.mangler.org

Deluge logo

Software > BitTorrent >

(on Wikipedia)
https://git.deluge-torrent.org/deluge
https://deluge-torrent.org/

A BitTorrent client.

It can’t copy magnet links, so it’s best to not use it.



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