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Tribler BitTorrent Client Sees New Release [Ubuntu PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.tribler.org/">Tribler</a> is an open source, decentralized peer-to-peer client based on the BitTorrent protocol, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.</b><br /><br />Like other BitTorrent clients, Tribler features a search box you can use to find content however, the search results come directly from other peers, without using a central server and this makes it immune to government anti-piracy attacks (the application will continue to work if the torrent trackers are pulled offline), claims an article from <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2098759/Tribler-New-file-sharing-technology-IMMUNE-government-attacks.html">dailymail.co.uk</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqFbEngX3j1YGd5S4VnoRqYjZcPhydYfgZjET9fon_BvRagagM-z0_6gkHNOUQKH2krORJ_ADEQ4_iwj1qsYb4Ehi6hSEwCF9k7HSyuezQYwPx2gchN-IczQk04jISkFbd8dS1x9bshgw/s1600/tribler-6.2.0.png"><img alt="Tribler bittorrent client" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqFbEngX3j1YGd5S4VnoRqYjZcPhydYfgZjET9fon_BvRagagM-z0_6gkHNOUQKH2krORJ_ADEQ4_iwj1qsYb4Ehi6hSEwCF9k7HSyuezQYwPx2gchN-IczQk04jISkFbd8dS1x9bshgw/s320/tribler-6.2.0.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The application includes features such as wiki-style channels, video-on-demand (<b>watch videos while you download them</b>) and more.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tribler 6.2.0 was released recently and is now available in the Tribler WebUpd8 PPA</b>. Changes include: </div><ul><li>video streaming is back and it now supports seeking;</li><li>Less disk and CPU consumption;</li><li>improved UI responsiveness;</li><li>various performance improvements;</li><li><a href="https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues?labels=&milestone=2&page=1&state=closed">bug fixes</a>.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjANKoWT4KX95WCiRcGCCkdEd7HYCk90leFqHp2OI6-vghsY51m6iHl3U_2NOGssGXfQydYdM6anY3aP6f1MtGpqbVZNFqfg5jGoGBIMq88ndZL8UOItxHhlUQoOBYXELdxGSY-FtGnXjs/s1600/tribler-video.png"><img alt="Tribler video streaming" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjANKoWT4KX95WCiRcGCCkdEd7HYCk90leFqHp2OI6-vghsY51m6iHl3U_2NOGssGXfQydYdM6anY3aP6f1MtGpqbVZNFqfg5jGoGBIMq88ndZL8UOItxHhlUQoOBYXELdxGSY-FtGnXjs/s320/tribler-video.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The previous version, 6.1.0, failed to start when built in a PPA and for this reason I didn't upload it to the WebUpd8 Tribler PPA. Tribler 6.1.0 changelog:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>faster downloads: Tribler has switched from the old python based bittorrent core to Rasterbar's libtorrent, so expect less resource usage too;</li><li>less disk and CPU consumption used for community synchronization;</li><li>UI improvements (download speed graphs, some new icons, general UI cleanup...);</li><li>throttling (Bandwidth limitation) is working again;</li><li>the "Save as" dialog has been modified to improve usability when downloading from magnet links;</li><li>thumbnails for downloaded media: Now when a new video file gets downloaded, Tribler will automatically create a thumbnail;</li><li>and make it available to the rest of peers to be shown on the search results for all the media you download from your favourite open channels;</li><li>fixed freezing at startup on some machines;</li><li>fixed race conditions and lockups in synchronizations;</li><li>various bug fixes and minor improvements.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install Tribler in Ubuntu via PPA</h2><br /><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest Tribler by using the WebUpd8 Tribler PPA:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/tribler<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install tribler</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Tribler debs along with Windows or Mac OS X binaries and source files can be downloaded from its <b><a href="http://www.tribler.org/trac/wiki/Download">downloads page</a></b>.</div>

Tribler BitTorrent Client Sees New Release [Ubuntu PPA]

Tribler is an open source, decentralized peer-to-peer client based on the BitTorrent protocol, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. L...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAycQf1MHbXvfrADh3R-KpH8rMR36OryhbsdqAbnh0kZAnRrcZkGWGwtgIEqMTUo9890zLsBTgbvdmnIXCVge6FQ_Tbwo6p2oNMHhxCD0LZroUnh0i9fh_KD8Vg0hghNmIifgNxbdiVKeV/s1600/tribler_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="tribler bittorrent client" border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAycQf1MHbXvfrADh3R-KpH8rMR36OryhbsdqAbnh0kZAnRrcZkGWGwtgIEqMTUo9890zLsBTgbvdmnIXCVge6FQ_Tbwo6p2oNMHhxCD0LZroUnh0i9fh_KD8Vg0hghNmIifgNxbdiVKeV/s320/tribler_2.png" title="tribler bittorrent client" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.tribler.org/">Tribler</a>, a cross-platform decentralized Bittorrent application, has reached version 6.0.0, getting a redesigned user interface.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribler">Wikipedia</a>, Tribler "uses an overlay network for content searching, which makes the program operate independent of external websites and renders it immune to governmental restraint". </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides the new user interface, the latest Tribler 6.0.0 includes performance improvements for users that recently join a channel and bug fixes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tribler comes with an integrated audio and video player so you can use it to almost immediately start watching videos or listening to songs you're downloading, before the download completes, feature which makes this application stand out from the other Linux Bittorrent applications:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnY4ttumpqkqnlL8RnR4qxE7hEhXU6ZG9G1IJOqkw2od76UyjUCvXl1pSGDW1V0Ftr6Jk0NAfLtoJXRm0nBOzjESAjX3Q1BbLDwOj8JJMRY7ect53pq7FBLu_0N9cQt0ZsmWY5OTK7tylU/s1600/tribler_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="tribler video" border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnY4ttumpqkqnlL8RnR4qxE7hEhXU6ZG9G1IJOqkw2od76UyjUCvXl1pSGDW1V0Ftr6Jk0NAfLtoJXRm0nBOzjESAjX3Q1BbLDwOj8JJMRY7ect53pq7FBLu_0N9cQt0ZsmWY5OTK7tylU/s320/tribler_1.png" title="tribler video" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><h2>Install Tribler in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>WebUpd8 provides a PPA to easily install and stay up to date with the latest Tribler releases in Ubuntu. Add the PPA and install Tribler in Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04, 11.10 and 11.04 using the commands below:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/tribler<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install tribler</code></pre><br /><b>You can also download the deb from the <a href="http://www.tribler.org/trac/wiki/Download">Tribler download page</a>, along with Windows and Mac OSX binaries or the latest source code.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: there's a bug and adding a local torrent file through the "Add external .torrent" dialog doesn't work properly. An easy work-around for this is to simply drag and drop the .torrent file onto the Tribler window.</div>

Decentralized Bittorrent Client `Tribler` Gets New User Interface

Tribler , a cross-platform decentralized Bittorrent application, has reached version 6.0.0, getting a redesigned user interface. According t...

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