On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Matthew J. Brodeur wrote: > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Tom Rauschenbach wrote: > > > Here's a weird question. Where does one go to get a set of kernel > > sources ? I'm looking for something distribution neutral. I've done it > > once but can't figure out where I got it. > > kernel.org is _the_ source, but I've found that IBiblio (formerly > metalab, formerly sunsite) is often faster, and not more than a day behind > with their mirror. > ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/
If for none other than sentimental reasons (it's where I downloaded my first Linux distribution, Slackware, from), I prefer ibiblio.org (a/k/a sunsite.unc.edu ;-) for most things, but for kernel sources, ftp.kernel.org has its own dynamic mirroring system set up -- just go to ftp.??.kernel.org (where ?? is your country designator, in our case, "us"), and you'll be bumped to a mirror. Most of them are pretty current, but I have seen some that tend to be a day or two behind. Oh: speaking of "sentimental FTP sites," we've got some x-DEC-ies on this list -- whatever happened to ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com? It's still there, and it's still a *huge* repository of good stuff (really good stuff, even -- poke 'round some if you haven't been there before), but the last Red Hat version, for example, is 6.1. Is it dying a slow death? -Ken P.S. Just to annoy Ben, I decided to add a postscript: it looks as if gatekeeper.dec.com is a current kernel site, and it's /blazingly/ fast. My T1 is currently pretty much saturated downloading 2.4.13. P.P.S. (Sorry, Ben!) I just did something I'd never done before: I accessed gatekeeper via HTTP -- it shows an address to e-mail with questions. If I don't hear anything from this list, I'll ping that. And one last tidbit: "NOTICE: We no longer permit mounting the archive via NFS. Sory for any inconvenience this may cause." Ah, the good ol' days... ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
