Linux, Inc.

BusinessWeek online ^ | 21 January 2005 | Steve Hamm

[TechJunkYard]

communism.org:

You certainly do have some interesting web sites in your favorites list, don't ya?

[SpaceBar]

I'm not interested in downloading a 650 MB file on a dialup connection.

Then you are smarter than you look.

I routinely download 600-700+ Mb files over dialup. I have a cron job that checks a list of file URL's and protocols I save while surfing, and when I'm sleeping it wget's the file list with the continuation flag so that downloads can span several evenings and dynamic IP sessions. When I have what I want and the MD5 sums check out, I burn. Works like a charm.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Cool.

I knew about wget, but I didn't know about the continuation flag. That is extremely useful.

Thanks for telling me.

[Cboldt]

if youre looking for a perminate os look at Suse it has some lightweight GUI's.. I think Fedora comes with some as well. You want to look for FVWM.

Or XFCE. XFCE is easier to set up. I use both and prefer FVWM, but XFCE is smaller, faster, and simpler.