Mirrors
Revision as of 16:32, 18 November 2009 by imported>Cov
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