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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 mirrors at https://mirror.cs.vt.edu/. It has
- Arch
- Rocky
- Cygwin
- Slackware
- EPEL (an additional package repository for Enterprise Linux distros [1]
VTTI
VTTI currently hosts a mirror with many distro and software repositories, and IPv6-accessable Ubuntu PPAs
(User:Telnoratti seems to run this now.)
It has OS dists for for:
- Alma
- Arch
- CentOS
- Debian
- Fedora
- FreeBSD
- IPFire
- OpenBSD
- OpenSUSE
- Raspbian
- Ubuntu
as well as software repos for
- CPAN
- CRAN
- EPEL
- ROS
ECE
The Electrical and Computer Department mirror at http://mirror.ece.vt.edu/ has been down for quite some time now. Depending on the attitudes of the current ECE IT regime, running it could possibly be a VTLUUG project.
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