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uGet Download Manager 1.10.3 Gets New Icon, Mirrors Support

uget download manager

uGet 1.10.3 has been released today with a new application icon, support for mirrors and more.

uGet is a GTK3 download manager that can make use of aria2 (a command line download accelerator also used by apt-fast) to accelerate downloads, and comes with features such as: clipboard monitoring, scheduler, resume downloads, batch downloads, supports multiple protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent or Metalink - these last 2 require the aria2 plugin), HTML and TXT file importing, proxy support, cookie and user agent control and much more. 

Best Linux Download Manager

Like we told you yesterday, here is this week's poll: the best Linux download manager. The contenders are: jDownloader, axel, aria2, wget, FatRat, SlimRat, Uget, Tucan and Kget. That's right, this time we have 3 command line tools among the poll options (even though only aria2 is an actual download manager, but wget and axel can serve as download managers too).


The poll: