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 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

A final list will be released in the upcoming weeks, not that more can't be added later.

VTTI

VTTI currently hosts a mirror for mostly internal use, with up-to-date Archlinux and a few other distros, and IPv6-accessable Ubuntu PPAs

Direct Links

Free Software Applications

Several Free Software applications are mirrored.

Firefox

Thunderbird

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

Fedora

Gentoo

openSUSE

Ubuntu

Sabayon

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