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Part III: Getting Things Done
Here’s how to start a BitTorrent session on your Linux desktop:
1. Start your BitTorrent client.
The BitTorrent client is accessible from the Internet group within your
desktop menu system. The Fedora Transmission client is shown in Figure
9-11. For most Linux distributions, the Firefox Web browser is configured
to start the BitTorrent client whenever you select a .torrent file from a
Web page.
Figure 9-11:
The Transmission
BitTorrent
client
window.
2. Select the option to open a Torrent File.
For Transmission, click the Add button in the toolbar. For KTorrent,
click the Open button. A file browser window appears.
3. Navigate to and select the .torrent file for the document you want to
download, and then click your selected torrent to add it to the list.
The file appears in what looks a lot like a music-player format, as shown
in Figure 9-12 with KTorrent. You can often control the download by
offering faster uploads to other BitTorrent users. If you have broadband
(see Chapter 8), an upload speed of 40 Kbps works well.
It can take a minute or so for the tool to fully synchronize, so expect the
projected time to change drastically for a while until it settles on a consistent
value.