Jigdo
Sign in to saveJigdo (a portmanteau of "Jigsaw" and "download") is a utility typically used for downloading to piece together a large file, most commonly an optical disk image such as a CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc (BD) image, from many smaller individual constituent files. The constituent files may be local and/or retrieved from one or more mirror sites. Jigdo's features are similar to BitTorrent, but unlike BitTorrent, Jigdo uses a client-server model, not peer-to-peer.
Key facts
- Software.screenshot
- Jigdo1.png
- Software.developer
- Richard Atterer, Steve McIntyre
- Software.programming language
- C++
- Software.operating system
- Linux, Solaris, OS X, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows
- Software.genre
- Download utility
- Software.license
- GPL-2.0-only
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.einval.com/~steve/software/jigdo
- Image
- Jigdo1.png
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- software version identifier
- 0.8.2
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Jigdo (a portmanteau of "Jigsaw" and "download") is a utility typically used for downloading to piece together a large file, most commonly an optical disk image such as a CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc (BD) image, from many smaller individual constituent files. The constituent files may be local and/or retrieved from one or more mirror sites. Jigdo's features are similar to BitTorrent, but unlike BitTorrent, Jigdo uses a client-server model, not peer-to-peer.
Jigdo itself is quite portable and is available for many UNIX and Unix-like operating systems, and is also available for Microsoft Windows.