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David Bolt wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Pascal Bleser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:-
>> David Bolt wrote:
>>> [0] There's a copy I built here:
>>> <URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/linux/SUSE-10.0/i586/>
>>> <URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/linux/SUSE-10.1/i586/>
>> And here's a package I maintain for SUSE 10.2 (factory), 10.1, 10.0, 9.3
>> and 9.2, i686 and x86_64 ;)
> 
> There it is again, duplication of packaging :| I also have 10.0 and 10.1
> as x86_64, along with 9.3 and 9.2 as 32bit, and there's even a version
> for FC5. However, the version I have is 0.8.1. I haven't built 0.9.0 as
> yet, so yours would be the better choice.
> 
>> http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/suser-guru/rpm/packages/Network/aria2/
>>
>> You have to pass -s <jobs> to aria2c for parallelized/segmented
>> downloads (just have a look at the manpage.
> 
> Or leave it without the -s and just pass multiple URLs that point to the
> same file.
> 
>> aria2 has a very, very low memory footprint for downloading torrents.
>> rtorrent is very lightweight too (but from 1-2 very quick tests, aria2c
>> seems to even use slightly less than rtorrent, but both are comparable).
> 
> Haven't tried rtorrent. For torrents I use Azureus. Aria2 is used in
> place of wget.

Ok. But rtorrent and aria2 are really good at torrent too ;)
They use a *lot* less memory as compared to ktorrent and azureus.

Note that for parallelized downloads, lftp [1] can do that too (awesome
ftp/http/ftps/https/sftp/fish client) - just use "pget -n <max parallel
downloads> <file>"

[1] http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/suser-guru/rpm/packages/Network/lftp/

cheers
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  -o) Pascal Bleser     http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
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