[ubuntu] [SOLVED] Torrent questions...

[rideburton56]

For all of you who helped me jump the bridge and take on Ubuntu, Thanks!!! I made the jump, took XP off 100 percent, and I am loving it.

I have decided to try to learn a little about .torrent. The first thing I did was take off transmission, install azureus, which after reasearching a little more this morning, I think was the wrong choice. I only have .5gig ram and 1.7 ghtz, and as I understand its a resource hog. Besides, I dont really know what to do with the client, so all the features would definitely be wasted.

I have pretty much decided that when I get home I am going to go back to transmission. Now when I open up transmission, what do I do? The first thing I did was add all my music folder to shared, and it seems that I have to do something about opening up a port. Is this true? If so I enjoy the challenege of trying to figure it out myself first, but I also have learned that part of why this OS is so secure is because no ports are open.

Once I get my client set up to actually work, is it as simple as going to google and searching for said file? As in, lets say I wanted to download a free and approved music file called "The BEst Song Ever!" Would I search that with torrent?? I tried to search the forums, but sadly, due to it being a touchy licensing situation and me being the only person not knowing what torrent even was until an hour ago, I cant seem to find my answers. Thanks in advance!!