[geeks] What is a good download manager for Linux

[Phil Stracchino]

hike wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> hike wrote:
>>
>>> What is a good download manager for Linux?
>>>
>>> RHEL 5 @ $work
>>>
>>> Ubuntu 7.10 @ $home
>>>
>> I think the $64,000 question here is, "What are you expecting from a
>> download manager that can't be done with Firefox, wget, or curl?"
>>
>>
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>>  Phil Stracchino, CDK#2     DoD#299792458     ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355
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> 
> 
> Our broadband is Comcast (at home)
> Ubuntu and RHEL are the OSes
> 
> I prefer downloading RHEL DVD images instead of the CD images.
> Comcast prefers I download CD images and kills the DVD image downloads.
> Comcast also hoses my broadband connect and the cable modem and linksys
> router must be reset.
> 
> I would like to be able to restart the DVD image download at the point that
> it was stopped by Comcast.

wget or curl can do that.  Neither one can make Comcrap not be fucked up.

> (Comcast also hoses downloads of multiple CD images also.
> (I download Ubuntu, Solaris, RHEL server/workstation, OpenSolaris
> infrequently.
> (It happens that OpenSolaris & Ubuntu have come out the same month and I am
> upgrading my workstation to RHEL 5.

No download manager is going to solve this problem in the face of active 
malice from your ISP.  You need a better ISP.  Period.


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   Phil Stracchino, CDK#2     DoD#299792458     ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355
   alaric at caerllewys.net   alaric at metrocast.net   phil at co.ordinate.org
          Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater
                  It's not the years, it's the mileage.