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Five best download managers for Linux

Posted by zinoune on · 3 comments
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The typical download manager at a minimum provides means to recover from errors without losing the work already completed, and can optionally split the file to be downloaded (or uploaded) into 2 or more segments, which are then moved in parallel, potentially making the process faster within the limits of the available bandwidth. So what is the perfect download manager i should use in Linux ?

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Comments (3)

djohnston ·
For me, it's prozilla. No muss, no fuss, no gui, simple interface.
caitlyn ·
I'm a big fan of wget, also used at the command line.
Sander_Marechal ·
Me too. I really don't like it when websites have elaborate download forms or META redirects for downloads (SourceForge, I'm looking at you!). It makes it hard or impossible to get a correct direct download URL that I can copy/paste in my SSH session in order to wget the file.

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