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Virginia Tech hosts mirrors for several distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and Gentoo.
 
Virginia Tech hosts mirrors for several distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and Gentoo.
  
<ul><li> Campus Computing mirrors are available at [http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/ http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/] They host mirrors for Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSUSE and a number of other more popular distributions
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* Campus Computing mirrors are available at [http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/ http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/] They host mirrors for Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSUSE and a number of other more popular distributions
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'''Note:''' To access via RSYNC, leave out /pub/ from the URL.
<dl><dd> '''Note:''' Unfortunately, these mirrors tend to be unresponsive; I do not recommend them. -[http://www.vtluug.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Gotgenes&amp;action=edit Gotgenes]
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</dd><dd> '''Additional Note:''' To access via RSYNC, leave out /pub/ from the URL.
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* The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute mirrors most of these large distibutions as well. A list of VBI mirrors is at [http://mirrors.vbi.vt.edu/ http://mirrors.vbi.vt.edu/].
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<ul><li> The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute mirrors most of these large distibutions as well. A list of VBI mirrors is at [http://mirrors.vbi.vt.edu/ http://mirrors.vbi.vt.edu/]
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'''Note:''' These servers tend to have good uptime and excellent transfer speeds.
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<dl><dd> '''Note:''' These servers tend to have good uptime and excellent transfer speeds. I recommend them. -[http://www.vtluug.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Gotgenes&amp;action=edit Gotgenes]
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* The Computer Science Department 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/ http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/].
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<ul><li> The Computer Science Department runs mirrors for a few smaller
 
distributions of Linux, including Arch and Knoppix. Their mirrors are
 
available at [http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/ http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/]
 
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= Using Campus Mirrors =
 
= Using Campus Mirrors =
 
* Ubuntu users, see [[Ubuntu]]
 
* Ubuntu users, see [[Ubuntu]]
 
* Gentoo users, see [[Gentoo]]
 
* Gentoo users, see [[Gentoo]]
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= Supported Instruction Set Architectures =
 
= Supported Instruction Set Architectures =
 
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<sup>1</sup>'''Note:''' The disc images include ppc in addition to i586 and x86_64
 
<sup>1</sup>'''Note:''' The disc images include ppc in addition to i586 and x86_64
  
 
[[Category:Campus computing resources]]
 
[[Category:Campus computing resources]]

Revision as of 16:32, 18 November 2009

Available Linux and BSD Mirrors on Campus

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

  • Campus Computing 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.

  • The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute 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.

  • The Computer Science Department 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/.

Using Campus Mirrors

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