KGet on KDE 4.2.2, showing an ongoing download
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Initial release | May 26, 2002 |
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Stable release |
2.9.1 / September 4, 2012
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Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Download manager |
License | GNU General Public License |
Website | www |
KGet is a free download manager for KDE, and is part of the KDE Network package. By default it is the download manager used for Konqueror, but can also be used with Mozilla Firefox and rekonq. KGet was featured by Tux Magazine and Free Software Magazine.
On KDE 3, KGet 0.8.x, 1 supported HTTP/FTP download. On KDE Software Compilation 4, KGet 2 was released; it supported bandwidth throttling segmentation, multi-threading, and the BitTorrent protocol.