Fedora ISO distribution with Metalink

[Anthony Bryan]

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.

[Beartooth]

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 ...

[Rick Stevens]

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
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