Pretty much everyone who cares already knows that I keep a local
Debian mirror (i386 only) at http://vh224401/debian/.
This is visible to the internet as http://vh224401.truman.edu/
I would prefer to mirror those things that are going to pay off the best
for Truman in terms of bandwidth.
Since y'all are all on MOREnet, you might want to confer with the folks running
mirrors on the down low over at the other universities with mirrors and don't
overlap the mirroring (unless you want a local copy for network outage or
latency reasons).
Also, here's what MLUG has to say about their mirrors (which makes sense,
in a goofy anti-theft of proprietary non-free software/media way (specifically
Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Windows-based applications, and now MP3s and
DVD rips):
Due to bandwidth issues, there are no public Linux archives available on
campus. However, a number of other Internet2 universities do host such
archives, which means access times from campus are almost as good as a local
mirror would be. I use http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/. Many
other big-name .edu sites are likely to be on I2 as well -- just find a
mirror listing (Red Hat's is a good start) and try a few sites.
I did see that Mizzou gives each student 150MB of free webspace. Perhaps you
can recruit fellow students (if Truman has a similar resource) with unused
allocations to host various FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) pieces and
software that fits within their allocation?
I know there's some mirrors over at Mizzou. Just not advertised, maybe.
The UMR (Rolla) mirrors I know about are at:
http://ftp.umr.edu/pub/linux/
and currently has: DEB, kernel, LDP, MDK, RH7.2, RH7.3, RH9, and Ximian
In addition, Steve and Kara Pritchard (http://www.kspei.com) have been hosting
ftp://ftp.silug.org/ with a T1 - for years - (and nice mirrors of lots of
stuff - Enlightenment, ALSA, DEB, FreshRPMs, GNU, KDE, kernel.org, linux.org,
LTSP, MDK, MOZ, OpenOffice, QT, RedHat, UML, XFS, among others).
They also host silug.org, luci.org, and archlug.org. And the respective ftp
sites are virtuals of ftp.silug.org. (i.e. ftp.archlug.org == ftp.silug.org).
Obviously, as a taxpayer, and MO taxpayer, I highly recommend using
taxpayer-funded bandwidth to access software that is so educational, that not
only can you actually get a copy of the source code, it doesn't cost you
anything extra, and you can give away as many copies as you like, so that other
people can learn from it too.
Mike/
Don't be a
sharecropper.
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