linux mirror at utoronto.ca

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 06:15:38PM -0400, Fred Nastos wrote:
> This might be common knowledge to people here, but
> just in case, there are mirrors of some popular linux
> distributions (debian, fedora, mandrake, slackware,
> suse) available at ftp://ftp.utoronto.ca/mirror/linux/.
> 
> As far as I can tell, this site isn't listed as an official mirror
> on the distribution download pages.

I tend to treat university mirrors, as mirrors to allow students much
faster access to the software, and a way to save bandwidth for the
university overall (if people use it).

I tend not to use them from elsewhere, as they are often not the fastest
connected to non educational networks, and I see no reason to waste
their bandwidth charges when other (probably faster) mirrors exist.  A
few have public official mirrors, in which case I may use them
occationally if others are down (york has an official debian mirror for
example).

Lennart Sorensen
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