From the Linux and Unix Users Group at Virginia Tech Wiki

Contents 1 Linux and BSD Mirrors on Campus 1.1 Campus Computing 1.2 VBI 1.3 CS 2 Direct Links 2.1 Free Software Applications 2.1.1 Firefox 2.1.2 Thunderbird 2.2 Linux Distributions 2.2.1 Arch 2.2.2 Fedora 2.2.3 Gentoo 2.2.4 openSUSE 2.2.5 Ubuntu 2.2.6 Sabayon 3 Package Manager Use 4 Supported Instruction Set Architectures

[edit] Linux and BSD Mirrors on Campus

Virginia Tech hosts mirrors for several distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and Gentoo.

[edit] Campus Computing

Campus Computing (CC) mirrors are available at http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/ They host mirrors for Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSUSE and a number of other more popular distributions Note: To access via RSYNC, leave out /pub/ from the URL.

[edit] VBI

The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) mirrors most of these large distibutions as well. A list of VBI mirrors is at http://mirrors.vbi.vt.edu/.

Note: These servers tend to have good uptime and excellent transfer speeds.

[edit] CS

The Computer Science Department (CS) runs a relatively old machine that mirrors for a few smaller distributions of Linux, including Arch and Knoppix. Their mirrors are available at http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/.

[edit] Direct Links

[edit] Free Software Applications

Several Free Software applications are mirrored.

[edit] Firefox

• Latest version (CC)

[edit] Thunderbird

• Latest version (CC)

[edit] Linux Distributions

The installation disk images can be somewhat hard to find. Direct links to the current disk image folder for the following Linux distributions are provided for your convenience.

[edit] Arch

• 2009.08 (CS)

[edit] Fedora

• 11 (VBI)

[edit] Gentoo

• Current x86 ISO (CC)

[edit] openSUSE

[edit] Ubuntu

[edit] Sabayon

• All versions (CS)

[edit] Package Manager Use

• To set up Ubuntu sync apt-get with on-campus mirrors, see the Ubuntu distribution guide.
• To set up emerge on Gentoo to use on-campus mirrors, see the Gentoo distribution guide.

[edit] Supported Instruction Set Architectures

Operating system distribution	Campus Computing mirror	VBI mirror	Computer Science mirror
Debian	i386, amd64, ia64	i386, armel
Fedora	i386, x86_64	i386, x86_64, ppc, ppc64
Ubuntu	i386, amd64	i386, amd64, powerpc, sparc
openSUSE1		i586, i686, x86_64
SUSE		i586, i686, x86_64, ppc, ppc64
MEPIS			i686, x86-64
CentOS	i386, x86_64	i386, x86_64
Red Hat	i386, x86_64
Gentoo	x86
Sabayon			x86, x86-64
Arch			i686
Slackware		i486, x86_64 (Slamd64), arm (ARMedslack)	i386, i486, x86_64 (Slackware64)
FreeBSD	i386, ia64

¹Note: The disc images include ppc in addition to i586 and x86_64