Metalinker.org

Metalink is an Open Standard that bundles the various ways (FTP/HTTP/P2P) to get files into one format for easier downloads. That's probably already more detail than you want. It's just...Simpler. Faster. More Reliable. Better.

For more info, read on...or, just get a supported download program & try it!

Popular Metalinks: Ubuntu, openSUSE, Sabayon, OpenOffice.org, Mandriva.

Get involved! Join the Metalink Announcements and Discussion mailing lists.

Metalink News...

07 May 08 :	KGet 2, part of KDE 4.0.4, supports Metalink. Check the release announcements for ways to try it out!
25 Apr 08 :	Metalink in Norwegian @ hardware.no: Forenkler nedlasting
24 Apr 08 :	Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) is here and Canonical now provides Metalinks for the ISO downloads.
15 Apr 08 :	DownThemAll! 1.0.1 (Firefox extension) is out! This is the easiest way to try out Metalink!
15 Apr 08 :	aria2 0.13.1 (Unix/Win), the high speed command line download utility with Metalink support, is out! Try out aria2fe, a friendly GUI front end, while you're at it.
11 Apr 08 :	Celerity 0.0.2 (an unstable developer preview) is a Python downloading library which supports Metalinks.
02 Apr 08 :	The MirrorBrain is the intelligence behind the openSUSE download redirector and it supports Metalinks.
25 Feb 07 :	Geospatial Semantic Web: Metalink unifies Internet downloads.

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Features...

If one link or server fails, download automatically continues using another.
One Click Downloads. Easy user experience.
Minimizes and distributes traffic so individual servers are under less strain.
Downloads are verified for enhanced reliability.
Extremely fast download speeds.
Automatic error recovery and repair of corrupted downloads.
Combines FTP and HTTP with optional Peer-to-peer (P2P, shared bandwidth).
Easily add multiple files to a download queue.
No Single Point of Failure (SPOF) like FTP or HTTP URLs. More fault tolerant.

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