light weight download manager/bittorrent client


Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: light weight download manager/bittorrent client
started by: twanj

Posted by twanj on Aug. 29 2006,18:28
I think < aria2 > might be a good fit for DSL.

It does regular downloads and torrents. from their page: 'Unlike Aria, which has GTK+ interface, aria2 provides command-line interface only. But GUI-lessness brings lower resource requirement. The physical memory usage is typically 3MB(normal HTTP/FTP downloads) to 5MB(BitTorrent downloads).'

It also does < metalink > downloads (mirrors/p2p) but that would require libxml2. Incidentally, there's a metalink for DSL at < http://www.metalinker.org/samples.html#isos >

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