After reading that a new version of Ktorrent was out, and that it was much improved, I decided to give it a try. Here's what I found.
Before I get to my very basic benchmarks, let's look at the feature lists of both programs.

Most probably you have heard many, many times the three words, virtual file system, but what exactly do they mean? In my recent article What does this /proc directory do?

Efforts to open up the functionality of Apple's iPhone to users disinclined to sign up to expensive two year contracts with AT&T are growing.
Following the publication of a technique to get the iPod and Wi-Fi features of the device working without signing up to AT&T by reverse engineer DVD Jon, a new group has picked up the baton.

At the second day of aKademy 2007, the contributors conference closed with the aKademy Awards Ceremony

GNOME 2.19.4 is being released on Wednesday. This is our fourth development release on our road towards GNOME 2.20.0, which will be released in September 2007.

A Phillipines-based video capture card vendor has soft-launched a line of Linux-based surveillance DVRs (digital video recorders). Neugent Technologies said its LX8000 SmartDetect DVRs have "built-in object detection video analytics," enabling them to watch for left, abandoned, missing, or stolen objects.

Mozilla Corp. Monday unveiled the last planned alpha update to Firefox 3.0 before it brings the new browser into the daylight of beta testing.

I run a small but fairly active Web site from a home server, as was commonly done back in the early days of the World Wide Web. What started as a learning project soon grew to be my primary hobby. It takes a bit of knowledge of Linux systems, various open sourced applications, and how the Internet works to start a Web site from scratch.