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GNU/Linux and BSD Mirrors on Campus
Virginia Tech hosts mirrors for several distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and Gentoo.
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/.
VTTI
VTTI currently hosts a mirror with many distro and software repositories, and IPv6-accessable Ubuntu PPAs
(User:Telnoratti seems to run this now.)
ECE
The Electrical and Computer Department mirror at http://mirror.ece.vt.edu/ is currently down, but will be coming under new management.
There are existing on campus mirrors for a lot of popular distributions, so while mirror.ece.vt.edu will host them it will focus on providing more unusual requests from the community. It currently is considering hosting the following (add more if you wish):
- Ubuntu
- Epel
- Fedora
- CentOS
- Scientific Linux
- OpenIndiana
- OpenBSD
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
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
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