[TriLUG] Mandrake 9.1 and Linux ISOs

[Michael Thompson]

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