| 13 May 08 : |
"metalinks, what are those?" Good question! |
| 12 May 08 : |
Appupdater 0.9 Beta has arrived, with a good lookin' GUI & Metalink Repository for lots of Windows software! |
| 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! |
| 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. |
| 02 Apr 08 : |
KGet 2, part of KDE 4.0.3, supports Metalink. Check the release announcements for ways to try it out! |
| 24 Mar 08 : |
MirOS BSD uses Metalink for their ISO downloads. |
| 14 Mar 08 : |
Retriever (Cross Platform, Java) is a download manager that includes Metalink and BitTorrent support. |
| 05 Mar 08 : |
KGet 2, part of KDE 4.0.2, supports Metalink. Check the release announcements for ways to try it out! |
| 01 Mar 08 : |
aria2 0.13 (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. |
| 29 Feb 08 : |
Ubuntu Brainstorm: Make ISOs availiable as a .metalink |
| 28 Feb 08 : |
DownThemAll! 1.0 (Firefox extension) is out! This is the easiest way to try out Metalink! |
| 20 Feb 08 : |
debindex is a Debian archive URL index that creates Metalinks for downloads. |
| 12 Feb 08 : |
Speed Download 5.0. (Mac), the slickest download manager, is out. Still has Metalink support. |
| 11 Feb 08 : |
aria2 0.12.1 (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. |
| 05 Feb 08 : |
KGet 2, part of KDE 4.0.1, supports Metalink. Check the release announcements for ways to try it out! |
| 03 Feb 08 : |
TheWorld Browser (Windows) is the first web browser with native Metalink support. It's got a built in download manager and looks great! |
| 02 Feb 08 : |
"KGet - KDE's Download Manager" mentions the new features, including Metalink. |
| 13 Jan 08 : |
Metalink Checker (Cross Platform, Open Source) is a command line Python downloader that supports multi-source downloads, automatically repairs downloads, and checks mirrors listed in .metalinks. |
| 12 Jan 08 : |
Net Transport (Windows) is a download manager that also supports Metalink, BitTorrent, and captures streaming audio/video. |
| 11 Jan 08 : |
KGet 2, part of KDE 4.0, now supports Metalink. Check the release announcements for ways to try it out! |
| 18 Dec 07 : |
Appupdater 0.8 is out, with a Metalink Repository for lots of Windows software! |
| 18 Dec 07 : |
Mirror Search indexes FTP sites and returns search results in metalinks. |
| 17 Dec 07 : |
Retriever (Cross Platform, Java) is a download manager that includes Metalink and BitTorrent support. |
| 16 Dec 07 : |
Metalink Checker (Cross Platform, Open Source) is a command line Python downloader that supports multi-source downloads, as well as checking mirrors listed in .metalinks. |
| 12 Dec 07 : |
Metalink Library for PHP and Python 1.1 (Unix/Win) is a script based library by Rene Leonhardt to create and manage Metalinks. |
| 08 Dec 07 : |
aria2 0.12.0 (Unix/Win), the high speed command line download utility with Metalink support, is out! This historic release lets you mix regular downloads and P2P! Try out aria2fe, a friendly GUI front end, while you're at it. |
| 27 Nov 07 : |
Geo McFly (Unix/Windows, Open Source) is an on the fly generator of metalinks based on client's geographical location by Per Řyvind Karlsen. |
| 27 Nov 07 : |
"Metalink takes off!" Thanks again, Gary! |
| 17 Nov 07 : |
aria2 0.11.5 (Unix/Win), the high speed command line download utility with Metalink support, is out! You can help test out 0.12.0rc too! Get on the cutting edge! Try out aria2fe, a friendly GUI front end, while you're at it. |
| 16 Nov 07 : |
Metalink Library for PHP and Python 1.0 (Unix/Win) is a script based library by Rene Leonhardt to create and manage Metalinks. |
| 01 Nov 07 : |
Sabayon, the "most advanced, scalable and community driven Linux distribution of this odd world" uses Metalinks for ISO downloads. |
| 28 Oct 07 : |
aria2 0.11.4 (Unix/Win), the high speed command line download utility with Metalink support, is out! Get on the cutting edge! Try out aria2fe, a friendly GUI front end, while you're at it. |
| 18 Oct 07 : |
Ubuntu 7.10 is out. We've got some Metalinks up for your downloading pleasure. |
| 18 Oct 07 : |
aria2fe, a friendly GUI front end for aria2, has been updated. |
| 17 Oct 07 : |
Damn Small Linux uses Metalink for their small ISO downloads. |
| 12 Oct 07 : |
TheWorld Browser (Windows) is the first web browser with native Metalink support. It's got a built in download manager and looks great! |
| 10 Oct 07 : |
aria2fe is a friendly GUI front end for aria2. |
| 04 Oct 07 : |
openSUSE 10.3 is out and I don't need to convince you to use Metalink to get it. |
| 01 Oct 07 : |
LugRadio, the world's premiere free and open source radio show, now uses Metalinks. |
| 09 Sep 07 : |
aria2 0.11.3 (Unix/Win), the high speed command line download utility with Metalink support, is out! Some great improvements! |
| 29 Aug 07 : |
DownThemAll! 1.0 BETA 2 (Firefox extension) is out! This is the easiest way to try out Metalink! |
| 22 Aug 07 : |
Origo is a new and easy to use software development and hosting platform for open and
closed source projects. Among many features, it has easy release management and mirroring with automatic metalink generation. |
| 15 Aug 07 : |
Free Download Manager 2.5 (Windows) supports Metalink! |
| 09 Aug 07 : |
aria2 0.11.2 (Unix/Win), the high speed command line download utility with Metalink support, is out! Some great improvements! |
| 08 Aug 07 : |
GUI Metalink Editor 1.1 by Hampus Wessman is out! It helps you make and edit almost any kind of Metalink in an easy cross platform GUI. |
| 07 Aug 07 : |
MidnightBSD, the BSD for everyone, uses Metalinks for their distribution. |
| 06 Aug 07 : |
Metamirrors has been revamped! |
| 31 Jul 07 : |
64 Studio, a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools, uses Metalinks for their distribution. |
| 30 Jul 07 : |
Downloading Made Easy at TheHindu.com mentions Metalink. |
| 26 Jul 07 : |
Appupdater 0.6.1 for Windows "is similar to apt-get or yum on Linux. It automates the process of installing and maintaining up to date versions of programs." They also have a Metalink Repository. |
| 16 Jul 07 : |
BeleniX, an excellent OpenSolaris Live CD, uses Metalinks for their distribution. |
| 12 Jul 07 : |
Pardus Linux uses Metalinks on their FTP for their ISO distribution. |
| 09 Jul 07 : |
DownThemAll! 1.0 BETA (Firefox extension) is out! This is the easiest way to try out Metalink! |
| 08 Jul 07 : |
aria2 0.11.1 (Mac/Unix), the high speed command line download utility with Metalink support, is out! Some great improvements! |
| 07 Jul 07 : |
Phex 3.2.0, a Gnutella P2P client, lets you download with Metalinks, and share your media library with it. |
| 26 Jun 07 : |
Libretto (Unix) is a Web based download manager that supports Metalink through aria2. |
| 24 Jun 07 : |
Appupdater 0.5 for Windows "is similar to apt-get or yum on Linux. It automates the process of installing and maintaining up to date versions of programs." They also have a Metalink Repository. |
| 18 Jun 07 : |
DownThemAll! (Firefox extension) nightly builds support Metalink. WARNING: For experienced users only! |
| 16 Jun 07 : |
Metalink - Nasce um novo protocolo de download. |
| 15 Jun 07 : |
Bayanihan Linux uses Metalinks for their distribution. |
| 12 Jun 07 : |
aria2 0.11.0 (Mac/Unix), the high speed command line download utility with Metalink support, is out! Some great improvements! |
| 11 Jun 07 : |
Metalink: la unión hace la fuerza. |
| 10 Jun 07 : |
Fedora Weekly News: Metalink: A New Way Of Distributing Fedora ISOs? |
| 10 Jun 07 : |
Metalink: downloads aos saltos in Portuguese. |
| 05 Jun 07 : |
Bluewhite64 Linux uses Metalinks for their distribution. |
| 29 May 07 : |
Granular Linux uses Metalinks for their distribution. |
| 28 May 07 : |
ADIOS uses Metalinks for their ISO downloads and plans to include Metalink software on future live CD releases. |
| 28 May 07 : |
Appupdater 0.4 for Windows "is similar to apt-get or yum on Linux. It automates the process of installing and maintaining up to date versions of programs." They also have a Metalink Repository. |
| 24 May 07 : |
Metadl 1.0 (Windows) is a NSIS download plugin with Metalink support based on libcurl. |
| 18 May 07 : |
GUI Metalink Editor 1.0 by Hampus Wessman is out! It helps you make and edit almost any kind of Metalink in an easy cross platform GUI. |
| 20 May 07 : |
Appupdater for Windows "is similar to apt-get or yum on Linux. It automates the process of installing and maintaining up to date versions of programs." They also have a Metalink Repository. |
| 10 May 07 : |
Metalink tools 0.3.3, CLI tools for creating .metalinks, have been released! |
| 08 May 07 : |
Downloading evolved with Metalink by Mayank Sharma. |
| 02 May 07 : |
aria2::gui is a cross platform GUI for aria2. |
| 14 Apr 07 : |
MetaDL 0.2 (Windows) is a NSIS download plugin with Metalink support based on libcurl. |
| 28 Mar 07 : |
aria2 0.10.2 (Mac/Unix/Windows), the high speed command line download utility with Metalink support, is out! Lots of new features and fixes! |
| 27 Mar 07 : |
Free Download Manager 2.3 public beta (Windows) supports Metalink! |
| 23 Mar 07 : |
Metalink @ Packages Resources now provides metalinks for Debian, CentOS, and Kubuntu ISOs, along with other new features in testing. |
| 15 Mar 07 : |
Google Summer of Code is on! Now's your chance to do something Metalink related for one of the many projects and make some cash! |
| 12 Mar 07 : |
Slashgeo: Downloads Based On Location. |
| 11 Mar 07 : |
Geospatial Semantic Web Blog: Metalink meets RDF and SPARQL. |
| 11 Mar 07 : |
wxDownload Fast 0.6.0 is out! |
| 09 Mar 07 : |
The UniProt Consortium, now provides a Metalink for the RDF
distribution of the UniProt protein database. |
| 08 Mar 07 : |
DOFUS, a "Tactical MMORPG", uses Metalink for their downloads. |
| 01 Mar 07 : |
cURL provides Metalinks for their downloads. |
| 28 Feb 07 : |
Semantic Focus: Metalink combines FTP and HTTP with optional P2P. |
| 28 Feb 07 : |
Hampus' Metalink Editor (Cross Platform, GUI, GPL) is a Metalink editor written in Python which allows you to create and edit almost any kind of Metalink. |
| 26 Feb 07 : |
Metalink blurb in Hebrew. |
| 26 Feb 07 : |
Ubuntu Feature Specification: Use Metalink to assist in ISO downloads. |
| 26 Feb 07 : |
Linux Mint, "an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution", uses Metalinks for their distribution. |
| 25 Feb 07 : |
Geospatial Semantic Web Blog: Metalink unifies Internet downloads. |
| 25 Feb 07 : |
KDE Commit Digest: KGet in KDE4 with Metalink support. |
| 25 Feb 07 : |
Slashdot: "Metalinks Tries to Simplify Downloads." |
| 16 Feb 07 : |
Barcamp Miami, 21 Feb at University of Miami, will have a presentation on Metalink. |
| 12 Feb 07 : |
Phex 3.0.2, a Gnutella P2P client, lets you export and share your media library. |
| 06 Feb 07 : |
aria2 0.10.1 (Mac/Unix/Windows), the high speed download utility with Metalink support, is out! New Metalink features include automatically correcting errors during transfer. |
| 05 Feb 07 : |
Using Metalinks explores the Free Software alternatives for downloading with Metalink. |
| 03 Feb 07 : |
metamirrors.com makes Metalinks from links and checksums. Try it out! |
| 29 Jan 07 : |
aria2 0.10.0+1 (Mac/Unix/Windows), the high speed download utility with Metalink support, is out! New Metalink features include automatically correcting errors during transfer. |
| 27 Jan 07 : |
Bram Neijt will deliver a 15 minute "Lightning talk" presentation on Metalink at FOSDEM 2007 at 11:20am on 25 Feb in Belgium. Watch the video! |
| 25 Jan 07 : |
Web Host Industry Review: P2P saves on bandwidth costs. |
| 22 Jan 07 : |
SmartFTP, an excellent FTP client on Windows, supports Metalink for adding files to a transfer queue. |
| 19 Jan 07 : |
SmartFTP (Beta), an excellent FTP client on Windows, supports Metalink for adding files to a transfer queue. |
| 15 Jan 07 : |
Phex, a Gnutella P2P client, has Metalink export in development. |
| 08 Jan 07 : |
There will be a "Lightning talk" presentation (15 minute) on Metalink at FOSDEM 2007 on 25 Feb in Belgium. |
| 05 Jan 07 : |
"Metalink Makes Large Downloads Easier" on Read/WriteWeb. (digg) |
| 30 Dec 06 : |
Orbit Downloader 1.3.1 (Windows) supports Metalink! It also has cool features like grabbing Youtube video and other streaming protocols. |
| 28 Dec 06 : |
wxDownload Fast 0.5.4 is out with fixes and a new theme! |
| 22 Dec 06 : |
G3Signal has their podcasts available with Metalink. |
| 21 Dec 06 : |
Orbit Downloader (Windows) is adding Metalink support! It also has cool features like grabbing Youtube video and other streaming protocols. |
| 15 Dec 06 : |
Free Download Manager (Windows) has added Metalink support to a pre-release beta version which we're very excited about seeing finalized and released! |
| 12 Dec 06 : |
OpenOffice.org 2.1 is here. Download via Metalink. |
| 09 Dec 06 : |
We need developers! If you're interested in Metalink, get involved! A libcurl or wget interface would be helpful. Also, here's some quick Metalink info in Spanish. |
| 07 Dec 06 : |
openSUSE 10.2 is out! If you have trouble downloading the ISOs, try using aria2 (SUSE RPMs) with the Metalinks. |
| 02 Dec 06 : |
Metalink tools 0.3.2 (Unix/Windows) have been released! |
| 29 Nov 06 : |
"Making Metalinks" by Darius Liktorius, Bram Neijt, and Manuel Subredu is a walk through the process of creating Metalinks with the various programs available. If you're thinking about offering Metalinks for your project, you'll want to read this. |
| 28 Nov 06 : |
"Metalink 0.5" (The Perfect Middleware, Romanian). |
| 23 Nov 06 : |
An article on WEB-DOT-DEV talks about the Free Software alternatives for downloading with Metalink. |
| 09 Nov 06 : |
Metalink tools 0.3.1 (Unix/Windows) have been released! |
| 08 Nov 06 : |
aria2 0.9.0 (Unix), the high speed download utility with Metalink support, is out! New Metalink features include downloading multiple files (download queue) and downloading by location. Plus a blurb on thinknext.net (Chinese) by Xiaohu Zhou. |
| 07 Nov 06 : |
"Downloading bliss with Metalink" by Mayank Sharma on linux.com (digg). Also in Japanese, Chinese. |
| 06 Nov 06 : |
TrueBSD, a LiveCD operating system based on FreeBSD with many useful applications, uses Metalinks for their distribution. |
| 04 Nov 06 : |
GoboLinux, an alternative Linux distribution which redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy, uses Metalinks for their distribution. |
| 30 Oct 06 : |
Metalink tools 0.3.0 (Unix/Windows) have been released! |
| 29 Oct 06 : |
wxDownload Fast 0.5.3 has been released. |
| 28 Oct 06 : |
FlashGot 0.5.97 is out! Grab it for increased Metalink compatibility and Firefox integration with wxDownload Fast 0.5.2, which is also out with improved graphics. |
| 27 Oct 06 : |
Eiffel Software uses Metalink for their downloads. They offer a compiler/development IDE for the Eiffel programming language, among other things. |
| 26 Oct 06 : |
Metalink @ Packages Resources, as always, provides metalinks for new releases as soon as they hit the mirrors: Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, openSUSE 10.2 Beta1. |
| 23 Oct 06 : |
Metalink tools 0.2.1 (Unix/Windows) have been released! |
| 19 Oct 06 : |
RoPkg::Metalink 0.2.5 (Unix), used at Metalink @ Packages Resources, is out! |
| 16 Oct 06 : |
Bram Neijt's Metalink tools 0.2.0 (Unix/Windows) have been released! These command line tools allow you to generate metalinks with mirrors and nearly every checksum imaginable. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Download em with metalink. |
| 12 Oct 06 : |
RoPkg::Metalink, used at Metalink @ Packages Resources, has been updated. |
| 08 Oct 06 : |
Metalink mailing lists! Announcements for occasional news and Discussion for general talk about Metalink. |
| 02 Oct 06 : |
PC-BSD, based on BSD and designed with the "casual" computer user in mind, uses Metalinks for their ISO downloads. If you're not ready to replace Windows, test out the PC-BSD VMWare image. You might get hooked! |
| 01 Oct 06 : |
aria2 0.8.1 (Unix), the high speed download utility with Metalink support, has been released. |
| 28 Sep 06 : |
redWall Firewall, a bootable CD-ROM firewall based on Gentoo Linux, uses Metalinks for their ISO downloads. |
| 26 Sep 06 : |
Simba 0.8.4, the mirroring tool, has been released with integrated Metalink generation. |
| 23 Sep 06 : |
aria2 0.8.0 (Unix), the high speed download utility with Metalink support, is out! Who wants to package it up for Ubuntu and SUSE? |
| 20 Sep 06 : |
Arch Linux, "a lightweight and flexible linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple," uses Metalinks for their ISO downloads. |
| 19 Sep 06 : |
Simba 0.8.3, the mirroring tool, has been released. Version 0.9 plans to integrate Simba with Metalink. GetRight 6.0c released with improved Metalink support. |
| 14 Sep 06 : |
PuppyLinux uses Metalink for their ISO download. "Puppy Linux is a small, fully featured Linux distribution. Puppy works swiftly on older systems and on modern computers including ThinPCs." |
| 13 Sep 06 : |
"Metalink: A Better Way to Download" on P2P File Sharing. |
| 12 Sep 06 : |
DesktopBSD uses Metalink for their various ISO downloads. DesktopBSD is a KDE-based "desktop operating system that's easy to use, but still has all the functionality and power of BSD" and the first BSD to use Metalink. |
| 09 Sep 06 : |
Will Metalinks be available from kernel.org? |
| 08 Sep 06 : |
Berry Linux uses Metalink for their ISO downloads. Ubuntu Christian Edition does as well. |
| 05 Sep 06 : |
Speed Download 4.1. (Mac), the slickest download manager, released with Metalink support. |
| 29 Aug 06 : |
Metalink @ Packages Resources has added Metalinks for Ubuntu and SUSE ISOs, to go along with Fedora, OpenOffice.org, Linux Kernel, & soon others. |
| 28 Aug 06 : |
downloadsquad has a few lines on Metalink. aria2 0.7.3 (Unix), the high speed download utility, released with updated Metalink support. |
| 26 Aug 06 : |
TorrentFreak has a great write up on Metalink which explains things better than we do.
(digg) |
| 22 Aug 06 : |
StartCom Linux offers Metalinks for their distribution. FlashGot 0.5.96 released with improved Metalink support via GetRight. |
| 13 Aug 06 : |
wxDownload Fast 0.5.1 (Mac/Unix/Windows) released with updated Metalink 3.0 support. |
| 08 Aug 06 : |
aria2 0.7.0 (Unix), the high speed download utility, released with updated Metalink 3.0 (HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent) support.
Also, blag linux has their Linux ISO for download with Metalink. Check em out, they're the first Linux distribution to use Metalink. |
| 05 Aug 06 : |
wxDownload Fast 0.5.0 (Mac/Unix/Windows) released with Metalink 3.0 (HTTP/FTP) support.
GetRight 6.0b also released. Ask your favorite sites and programs to use Metalink. |
| 09 Jul 06 : |
OpenOffice.org has added Metalinks for their multiplatform and multilingual free office suite. These are automatically generated by Metalink @ Packages Resources.
(digg). Also, aria2 0.6.0+1 has been released. |
| 04 Jul 06 : |
aria2 0.6.0 (Unix) released with Metalink 3.0 (HTTP/FTP) support. aria2 is a light weight, high speed download utility that supports segmented downloads and BitTorrent from the command line. |
| 19 Jun 06 : |
GetRight 6.0a released with improved Metalink support. |
| 09 Jun 06 : |
Metalink @ Packages Resources provides updated Metalinks for the Linux Kernel, OpenOffice.org, & Fedora with more Open Source projects on the way (KDE, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva).
Software and source code for generating Metalinks is also available there. |
| 07 Jun 06 : |
GetRight 6.0 released with Metalink 3.0 support. |
| 09 Apr 06 : |
FlashGot 0.5.9.995 released with Metalink 2.0 support via GetRight. |
| 30 Mar 06 : |
Metalink gets a nod in Gary Zellerbach's Blog on Electronic Software Distribution. Innovative? Cheers, Gary! |
| 06 Mar 06 : |
GetRight implemented Metalink 3.0. |
| 25 Feb 06 : |
Metalink editorial on freshmeat.net |
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