Mirrors
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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
- 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 | |||
| 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 |
1Note: The disc images include ppc in addition to i586 and x86_64
