Deluge on OLPC XO (Sugar)
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:27 pm
hi there everybody
i just wanted to say thank you to the deluge crew AND show you another use of deluge in case you haven't heard of that yet: about 1 year ago i purchased an OLPC XO. The OLPC is the so called "One Laptop Per Child" initiative supported by the United Nations. I bought one machine and donated one. I know it's not exactly what the OLPC is meant for, but in MY case, the best use for the OLPC was turning it into a seed/leech machine. The operating system installed on the OLPC is of no big use unless you are a child. I had XFCE on it but it was still to hardaware-consuming (if you're interested in the OLPC's hardware specs, check this out: http://www.laptop.org).
Anyway, after a couple of month without use for it, I searched the internet for a torrent client that would be running on OLPC's sugar environment or at least run on OLPC kernel. Well, I somehow installed deluge and this blew me off! It's incredibly cool: I control the OLPC, which is online 24/7 over the webinterface. I only touch the OLPC when I need to grab some of the downloads and shove them over to my harddrive. Since all downloads are automatically stored on an attached USB drive, I only disconnect the USB drive and leave the OLPC running. Well, it's awesome and I wanted to say: Thank you.
I'm still running an old webinterface because I'm afraid an updated version won't work as smoothly as it does now.
i just wanted to say thank you to the deluge crew AND show you another use of deluge in case you haven't heard of that yet: about 1 year ago i purchased an OLPC XO. The OLPC is the so called "One Laptop Per Child" initiative supported by the United Nations. I bought one machine and donated one. I know it's not exactly what the OLPC is meant for, but in MY case, the best use for the OLPC was turning it into a seed/leech machine. The operating system installed on the OLPC is of no big use unless you are a child. I had XFCE on it but it was still to hardaware-consuming (if you're interested in the OLPC's hardware specs, check this out: http://www.laptop.org).
Anyway, after a couple of month without use for it, I searched the internet for a torrent client that would be running on OLPC's sugar environment or at least run on OLPC kernel. Well, I somehow installed deluge and this blew me off! It's incredibly cool: I control the OLPC, which is online 24/7 over the webinterface. I only touch the OLPC when I need to grab some of the downloads and shove them over to my harddrive. Since all downloads are automatically stored on an attached USB drive, I only disconnect the USB drive and leave the OLPC running. Well, it's awesome and I wanted to say: Thank you.
I'm still running an old webinterface because I'm afraid an updated version won't work as smoothly as it does now.