Mirrors

Linux and BSD Mirrors on Campus

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

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.

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.

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/.

Users may note that while the 2010.5 installer includes this mirror, the one at http://mirror.ece.vt.edu/archlinux/ is much more up to date.

ECE

The Electrical and Computer Department now has a machine that currently mirrors all of Arch linux, and is kept much more up to date than the CS mirror. Soon it'll have mirroring for Gentoo and Ubuntu as well: [1]

Direct Links

Free Software Applications

Several Free Software applications are mirrored.

Firefox

• Latest version (CC)

Thunderbird

• Latest version (CC)

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.

Arch

• Latest (ECE)
• Server line: Server = http://mirror.ece.vt.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
  • Updated every hour
• 2009.08 (CS)

Fedora

• 11 (VBI)

Gentoo

• Current x86 ISO (CC)

Sabayon

• All versions (CS)

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.

Supported Instruction Set Architectures

Operating system distribution	Campus Computing mirror	VBI mirror	Computer Science mirror	ECE 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, x86_64	i686, x86_64
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