[geeks] What is a good download manager for Linux

[Phil Stracchino]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Sun's whole software download setup sucks, everything from their 
> byzantine and broken website to the crap you have to go through to get a 
> download.
> 
> It's a public and open OS, they should have vanilla http and ftp links 
> that *JUST FREAKIN' WORK* so you can schedule them to download when you 
> want rather than the stupid sign in, hand-holding crap you have to do 
> now.  Better yet, torrent and rsync links would be useful.

Not to mention the "you can only download this file once for security 
reasons, and viewing it counts as a download."

WTF are they thinking?  What, I'm going to download the ISO three times 
and give the other two away?  Hello....?



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