[TriLUG] Mandrake 9.1 and Linux ISOs

Kevin Flanagan kevin at flanagannc.net
Wed Mar 19 17:31:43 EST 2003


On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 13:34, Michael Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 13:23, Turnpike Man wrote:
> > I have had the most success with this place: ftp.uselinux.org

Folks may want to try www.linuxiso.org, it's a local site.




> > 
> > The download speeds were phenominal and very constant when I was downloading RH
> > 8.0, especially when compared to ibiblio (which I find slow)  Let's keep this
> > little secret to ourselves!  ;)  ... Although, now that I check, it seems they
> > only have Debian and Red Hat... well... *shrugs*  just don't shoot the
> 
> Maybe a refusal to mirror anything French?  (If it was there b4)
> 
> --mwt
> 
> 
> > messenger!
> > 
> > I presume these folks keep their mirror up to date... I'm not one who can
> > say... anyone else know?
> > 
> > laters,
> > David M.
> > 
> > --- Tanner Lovelace <lovelace at wayfarer.org> wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > 
> > > According to this message, Mandrake 9.1 is done and will be coming
> > > out shortly:
> > > 
> > > http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2003-02/msg09521.php
> > > 
> > > While we would normally host isos of new linux distributions, we 
> > > have found that this takes far too much bandwidth.  We can host them,
> > > but the download rate is so slow that it doesn't make sense to grab
> > > ISOs from our site.  Because of this, we think it doesn't make since 
> > > for us to continue hosting them.  Hosting the individual RPMs from 
> > > the various distros will continue, as this takes a lot less bandwidth,
> > > and we will also keep updates posted.  As always, you can use
> > > up2date, apt-get, or urpmi to automatically grab packages (see
> > > the Member services FAQ at http://members.trilug.org for more info).
> > > 
> > > For the isos themselves, please check the normal mirrors:
> > > 
> > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3
> > > http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html
> > > http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
> > > 
> > > Also note that Ibiblio is one of our best (and local too) mirrors
> > > for many linux distributions:
> > > 
> > > http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/
> > > 
> > > Our mirrors and other TriLUG member services are made possible
> > > by the wonderful folks at Inflow (http://www.inflow.com/).
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Tanner
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