[geeks] What is a good download manager for Linux

Micah R Ledbetter vlack-lists at vlack.com
Wed May 7 17:18:06 CDT 2008


On May 7, 2008, at 11:24, hike wrote:
> I would like to be able to restart the DVD image download at the  
> point that
> it was stopped by Comcast.

The first thing that comes to my mind is bittorrent. Encrypted, fuck- 
you-and-your-packet-sniffing-too bittorrent. IIRC some clients have  
encryption on by default now, so even users connected to non- 
infringing torrents may have it enabled.

I mean, besides the obvious ditching of your shitty ISP, which I know  
isn't always an option.

> (It happens that OpenSolaris & Ubuntu have come out the same month  
> and I am
> upgrading my workstation to RHEL 5.

Maybe the simplest answer is to download from work? Unless they use  
Comcast, too, in which case, I'm so very, very sorry.

  - Micah



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