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GNU/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 GNU/Linux, including Arch and Knoppix. The Arch mirror has now been updated so it has current packages. Their mirrors are available at http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/.
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: http://mirror.ece.vt.edu/
Direct Links
Free Software Applications
Several Free Software applications are mirrored.
Firefox
- Releases (CC)
Thunderbird
- Releases (CC)
GNU/Linux Distributions
The installation disk images can be somewhat hard to find. Direct links to the current disk image folder for the following GNU/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
Fedora
- 16 (VBI)
Gentoo
- Current x86 ISO (CC)
openSUSE
Ubuntu
Sabayon
- All versions (CS)
Package Manager Use
Ubuntu
To set up Ubuntu sync apt-get with on-campus mirrors, see the Ubuntu distribution guide.
Gentoo
To set up emerge on Gentoo to use on-campus mirrors, see the Gentoo distribution guide.
OpenBSD
To use the ECE mirror for the OpenBSD packages manager: export PKG_PATH=http://mirror.ece.vt.edu/pub/OpenBSD/<version>/packages/`machine -a`/ where <version> is the version you are running. See OpenBSD FAQ section 15 for more information. Note that not all architectures with the install sets on the ECE mirror also have corresponding packages there.
Supported Instruction Set Architectures
| Operating system distribution | Campus Computing mirror | VBI mirror | Computer Science mirror | ECE mirror | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | i386, amd64, ia64 | ||||
| Fedora | i386, x86_64 | i386, x86_64, ppc, ppc64 | |||
| Ubuntu | i386, amd64 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| OpenBSD | alpha, amd64, armish, hp300, hppa, i386, landisk, loongson, luna88k, mac68k, macppc, mvme68k, mvme88k, sgi, socppc, sparc, sparc64, vax, zaurus |
1Note: The disc images include ppc in addition to i586 and x86_64