On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 21:41 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:02:55 -0500, Anthony Bryan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I just wanted to invite people to try out downloading Fedora ISOs with > > Metalink. > > It's an XML format for listing mirrors and checksums along with other > > information. openSUSE, OpenOffice.org, Arch Linux, and other distributions use > > it. > > > > It usually results in much faster and more reliable downloads. > > > > aria2 is in Extras and is a great command line client for segmented downloads > > and BitTorrent, along with Metalink. There are also other GUI clients on Mac, > > Unix, and Windows. > > > > You can find .metalinks for most Fedora ISOs at > > http://download.packages.ro/metalink/fedora/ > > > > For more info, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink > > > > I'd be interested in any comments people have. > > -- > > (( Anthony Bryan > > )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] > > > > OK, I read most of the fedora parts, started to download aria2, and > suddenly thought to try yum install aria2 instead. It worked -- you got it > and installed it -- but now I have an old old Very Dumb Question : how do > I invoke it?? It doesn't seem to have added a launcher to the main menu > under internet, where I'd expected to find it ... It's a command-line thing, not a GUI thing. As was mentioned in Anthony's posting: "aria2 is in Extras and is a great command line client..." I know, it's Friday! :-P ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If this is the first day of the rest of my life... - - I'm in BIG trouble! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
