Comments on: Re: How not to release software

By: Luigi Fulk

Luigi Fulk — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:31:45 +0000

Blogs RSS feed not work in my browser (google chrome) how can I sort it?

By: Severin

Severin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:48:29 +0000

@J.C. Denton: It’s good to hear that you migrated your IT to GNU/Linux. A wise choice.

Given the generality of your comment, I assume that you also posted in other places on the web. LottaNZB is neither a P2P software nor meant to be used in a corporate environment. But I’m sure that there are Open Source solutions that will meet your requirements. For collaboration within your company, I’m sure that there are non-P2P solutions that are way more suitable.

By: J.C. Denton

J.C. Denton — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:22:07 +0000

I also migrated our IT from Microsoft operating systems (used one decade) to GNU/Linux ones. Among these systems are Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (on HPC cluster) and Xubuntu 8.04 LTS “Security Enhanced” (a fork) installed on our client/workstation systems. Our perimeter firewalls are running m0n0wall (BSD) at the moment.

Since some members want to benefit from P2P networks for file sharing, which is really a security concern I came (accidentially) accross LottaNBZ when being on Launchpad. I’d like to note two things though which are very important to me as a CTO.

First we benefit from every single backport to LTS versions. As a corporate entity we cannot afford to make a dent every 6 months. We heavily depend on LTS versions for server systems (5 yrs) and workstations (3 yrs). Please take this into account during your continued development. Further security is much more important to us than scalability, stability, performance or anything else. Our operating system distributions are security enhanced already and thus we want to run secure software on them. Can you put more on your website about that?

By: Severin

Severin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:26:56 +0000

Fortunately, I didn’t mix up PyGTK and GTK up in this posts, but just to clarify: LottaNZB 0.5 requires GTK 2.16 and not PyGTK 2.16. This isn’t the same. For example, Ubuntu 9.04 comes with GTK 2.16 and PyGTK 2.14 and runs LottaNZB just fine.

By: VuDu

VuDu — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:23:19 +0000

It’s reading posts like this that make those closed and dark windows days seem so far away.

By: fischi

fischi — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:55:03 +0000

i just want to express my thanks to the whole team behind this project.

i used lottanzb quite some time and only abandoned it for SABnzbd after i read your praises about it and the plans to support it in the future. since then i am happy to have an alternative to hellanzb, but i also long for the day, when lottanzb 0.6 is released and i can use it again.

keep up the nice work.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:43:14 +0000

I migrated from Windows XP to Ubuntu 7.10 and also I haven’t look back…. I was running Alt.Binz with WINE because I couldn’t find a good alternative… Months later I tried one of the fist builds of LottaNZB, but somehow it didn’t work for me and tried other programs as well without luck.. so I kept using Alt.Binz with WINE which work like 80% of what it used to work in Windows.. Months later I tried searching again to see what I could find and I came across LottaNZB again but this time it work great and loved the interface, clean and with all the information that I needed. Since then I been following its developing, but due to HellaNZB’s annoying bugs I am using SABnzbd now but I can’t wait for LottaNZB 0.6 which will be based on SABnzbd …… Thanks for making this great application…

btw, there’s a typo: filing but reports … should be filing bug reports

By: Sander

Sander — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:12:37 +0000

Heh, I’ll soon be working on my TV-Series plug-in and possibly a schedule plug-in (making use of Sabnzb’s API )