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Viva
August 4th, 2009, 11:11 AM
This is what the description on their sourceforge project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedownload/) says

Using this free download manager and accelerator, you can download files and complete web sites up to 6 times faster than before. Also we plan to port it to Linux and Mac OS.
Hopefully, they'll port it soon.
Giant Speck
August 4th, 2009, 11:28 AM
I wonder how well the Windows version runs in WINE. :p
Viva
August 4th, 2009, 11:59 AM
I wonder how well the Windows version runs in WINE. :p

It crashes regularly on mine and the download queue is lost after every crash
moster
August 4th, 2009, 12:18 PM
Do not be fooled with that "SIX TIMES FASTER". They said it because it can use 6 threads to download something. But, it is old trick. Plain firefox plugin called DownThemAll can do this. Or just about any other better download manager.

It is faster on some server where they limit you to 50kb/s and X 6 threads you get full speed depending on your connection, not faster.
stwschool
August 4th, 2009, 12:20 PM
Flashget works fine in WINE. Might I also suggest JDownloader?
binbash
August 4th, 2009, 01:04 PM
Do not be fooled with that "SIX TIMES FASTER". They said it because it can use 6 threads to download something. But, it is old trick. Plain firefox plugin called DownThemAll can do this. Or just about any other better download manager.

It is faster on some server where they limit you to 50kb/s and X 6 threads you get full speed depending on your connection, not faster.

I agree with this
K.Mandla
August 4th, 2009, 02:18 PM
Do not be fooled with that "SIX TIMES FASTER". They said it because it can use 6 threads to download something. But, it is old trick. Plain firefox plugin called DownThemAll can do this. Or just about any other better download manager.

It is faster on some server where they limit you to 50kb/s and X 6 threads you get full speed depending on your connection, not faster.
+1. And this is the part where I suggest using axel (http://axel.alioth.debian.org/). jdong hates it when i do that. :twisted:
kpkeerthi
August 4th, 2009, 02:32 PM
This is what the description on their sourceforge project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedownload/) says

Hopefully, they'll port it soon.

Good news. Thanks for sharing. I wish they do a true Linux port and not simply bundle it with WINE like Google Picasa.
mrgnash
August 20th, 2009, 07:19 AM
Sigh. What nonsense.