perhaps simply: You can download LyX 1.6.0 from http://www.lyx.org/Download
instead of
You can download LyX 1.6.0 here:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.0.tar.gz
Prebuilt binaries (for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.0/
