I use Transmission. I think it works pretty well. I have used deluge in the past and liked it a lot too.

Regards,
Pedro

thanks oldhoghead and pedro, will try deluge. i tried transmission but it can't download files that have japanese names. or maybe i have to set the system-wide language to a japanese font to make it work properly?...

oh, i forgot to specify that i wanted to use yahoo messenger not for chatting but for long-distance calls. if the other side's o.s. is windows, and mine is antix, is there a linux program that would enable me to communicate by voip?

Look for Skype in Synaptic Package Manager.

secipolla wrote:Look for Skype in Synaptic Package Manager.

thanks secipolla. used skype years ago; did not know it now has a linux version.

i was able to install antiX in my old thinkpad that has no cd-drive, using unetbootin, after so much trial and error... it was pretty amazing. i tried so many distros, and thought that mepis and antix do not install in this old laptop, but i was able to install mepis 6.5 a while back, so i thought antiX 8 should be able to install; and it did, although the secret was to choose from the different options while unetbootin kicks in.

when antiX boots up, there are several messages during the bootup process. many things are being loaded... is there a way to stop or delete certain processes from being loaded, to speed up the bootup?

There is a tutorial on the boot process here:

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You will need to know what services you want to run, and decide what daemons you want to load.

Hal343 wrote:There is a tutorial on the boot process here:

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You will need to know what services you want to run, and decide what daemons you want to load.

thanks hal343, that's a big help, will read it up.