Tuesday, April 4, 2006

New Torrent Client - KTorrent

So after thinking about it, I don't think TorrentFlux is right for me. It's nice, but not for me. I realized I wanted uTorrent only for Linux. So I just installed kTorrent. Reminds me of a young uTorrent.

http://ktorrent.pwsp.net

It's also plugin based, so I'm sure they'll have many toys for it. So far, it barely scratches the CPU and has a resonable memory footprint at about 36MB. I'm trying it out now to see how well it does.

All it took in Ubuntu to install was clicking on the "Add/Remove..." under the Applications menu. I then typed "torrent" in the search bar. Selected "KTorrent" and it downloaded, configured and installed it for me!

Aaaaah. I think Brennan and Arik will say that describing that installation was relatively simple :)

Oh, and Brennan, they just released an update to WPA and WPA2! I just installed it, but I don't have a wireless NIC to test it on. So there ya go! If you download Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 Flight 6, and install all the updates, it should be good. I think :-P

Posted by boredottawa at April 4, 2006 10:09 PM
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Hey Roy,

Do you need a wireless nic? I have an extra one for an old computer that I retired. Let me know if you want to borrow it (probably forever).

Posted by: andrew at April 5, 2006 08:41 AM

Hehe. I actually have an extra one but I'm too damn lazy to put it in and ruin my setup. Wiring your network is still the best way to network a computer.

Posted by: roy at April 5, 2006 09:30 AM

Thanks for the update Roy. I'm still going to wait till the final version of Ubuntu Dapper is out though. In other news, I also have an extra wirless card lying around. Just thought I'd mention it.

Posted by: Brennan at April 7, 2006 08:11 AM