Comments on: Email large files via BitTorrent: Podmailing vs Pando

By: Louis Choquel

Louis Choquel — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:18:30 +0000

@Bogdan: we will a free version, that’s for sure.
A paid service is also in the works. We’re designing it so that the free service will still be great, and the paid service to bring more features for demanding users.

Compare this to a service like RapidShare: because we have P2P with BitTorrent, we can move more data for a lesser cost, which enables a better service for free users.

By: Bogdan Stroe

Bogdan Stroe — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:45:55 +0000

The new features of the future Podmailing release will cut back on Pando’s strong points. But will it still be FREE or there will be a paid version like Pando PRO? That Linux client would definitely turn the balance in favor of Podmailing.

By: Louis Choquel

Louis Choquel — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:40:18 +0000

Well Bigbluealien the thing is, on Linux we don’t have an installer or package. It’s just a bunch of python source code, which requires to have all the proper versions of python and extra modules installed. There is no closed source Linux version.
But you’re right to insist. Tomorrow I’ll try to talk my lead developer into admitting the code is “clean enough” and we’ll see what he says.

By: Bigbluealien

Bigbluealien — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:10:57 +0000

: ( , I’ll wait then, but if you have a working version why not release that now then make it open source once its cleaned up? For the mean time I still have an XP install I can test it on.

By: Louis Choquel

Louis Choquel — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:52:50 +0000

Thx Bigbluealien
Unfortunately Podmailing is not available for Linux… yet.
In fact we’ve had a working Linux version for a along time now but we want to clean up the code and make it open source before we release it and that keeps being pushed in time, duh!
In the meantime there will be a Web upload option starting next week, so that works on all platforms

By: Bigbluealien

Bigbluealien — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:36:45 +0000

I’ve used Pando before and found it was more hassle than putting the file on a usb stick and passing it on the good old fashioned way(whenever thats possible), and now it’s useless since I’m on Linux most of the time.
Will definitely be checking out Podmailing from what I’ve read here.

By: Louis Choquel

Louis Choquel — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:03:30 +0000

Hi Bogdan,
Thanks or the showdown.

I’m the creator of Podmailing and happy to let you know that we have a new release coming out next week including a plugin for email client Mozilla Thunderbird and the possiblity to get a widget for your blog. Oh and for Web sharing we will take the relay duration up to 3 months.
Please email me and I will send you the pre-release.

(for full-screen TV shows too, stay tuned we will have something awesome for you pretty soon)

Louis.

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By: Stefan Neagu

Stefan Neagu — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:28:02 +0000

I used Pando a couple of times – worked for me.