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jcmuse
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 Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject: gentoo university mirrors -- anyone attend a uni that has 1? |
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| i was wondering if anyone is currently at a university that hosts a portage mirror. i think it must be pretty cool if you're on the campus line to get LAN speed access to all of portage. im also wondering, why do universities volunteer their bandwidth for stuff like this? is it for recognition? also, how big is all of portage? |
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bec
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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It's over 30 GB !
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bdm
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:31 am Post subject: Re: gentoo university mirrors -- anyone attend a uni that ha |
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| jcmuse wrote: | | im also wondering, why do universities volunteer their bandwidth for stuff like this? |
It's like asking why do Gentoo volunteers spend so much time on Gentoo without getting paid? I'm guessing because they want to help out a project they believe in. |
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asiobob
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| UWA (www.uwa.edu.au) use to have a distfiles mirror, and I use to live on campus! 100mbit connection, and I use to get 8-9 megaBYTES a second off it! That's life, broadband feels so slow. They removed it though, not enough users and to much hdd. They now mirror for ubuntu or some thing. It really does depend on the admin |
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hollywoodcole
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El_UnO
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tomfitzyuk
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| I'll be at Warwick this October and they have Slackware, CentOS, Fedora, SuSe, Mandriva, Debian; too bad I use Arch ;( |
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DAharon
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| They had one here at Cal Poly (SLO), but it went down a couple months ago and I haven't tried it again since. |
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Penguin of Wonder
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They don't have one at my school, I wonder how much greif I'd have to give them before they'd consider it?
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EatMeerkats
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on my ThinkPad:
| Code: | bananas ~ $ wget ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso
--16:13:20-- ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso
=> `livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso'
Resolving ftp.ussg.iu.edu... 156.56.247.193
Connecting to ftp.ussg.iu.edu|156.56.247.193|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /linux/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd ... done.
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso ... done.
Length: 730,388,480 (697M) (unauthoritative)
100%[============================================================================>] 730,388,480 73.62M/s ETA 00:00
16:13:29 (74.48 MB/s) - `livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso' saved [730388480]
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Spherical
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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Yup, the one in the Netherlands:
ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo
Twenthe University, Enschede, Netherlands
I'm actually still studying there  |
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monolit
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:52 pm Post subject: wow |
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EatMeerkats : Do you have striped disks on your thinkpad? It seemd a bit high to me. 73.62M/s fof
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EatMeerkats
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| monolit: It probably all went into cache... I'm sure if I had downloaded a 2 GB file, it wouldn't have been that fast. |
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monolit
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| Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject: 73.62M/s |
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EatMeerkats: I thought so
Anyway having a gentoo mirror on the campus is great. I wish we hosted a gentoo mirror at our university too. But our bandwith would not permit that(all university connected through 34 Mbits   ).
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jawilson
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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here at the university of wisconsin:
http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo
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Downloading http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/distfiles/OOo_2.0.2_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
--10:51:25-- http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/distfiles/OOo_2.0.2_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/OOo_2.0.2_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz'
Resolving gentoo.chem.wisc.edu... 128.104.70.13
Connecting to gentoo.chem.wisc.edu|128.104.70.13|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 122,488,813 (117M) [application/x-tar]
100%[====================================>] 122,488,813 9.72M/s ETA 00:00
10:51:36 (10.31 MB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/OOo_2.0.2_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz' saved [122488813/122488813] |
Also, I have gentoo installed on several computers in my lab, so I have one that syncs and emerge -b world every night, so I just install the binary packages on all of the other computers and my laptop. It's pretty nice! It only took about 5 minutes to upgrade X to 7 on each computer. |
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bdm
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| EatMeerkats wrote: | on my ThinkPad:
| Code: | bananas ~ $ wget ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso
--16:13:20-- ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso
=> `livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso'
Resolving ftp.ussg.iu.edu... 156.56.247.193
Connecting to ftp.ussg.iu.edu|156.56.247.193|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /linux/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd ... done.
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso ... done.
Length: 730,388,480 (697M) (unauthoritative)
100%[============================================================================>] 730,388,480 73.62M/s ETA 00:00
16:13:29 (74.48 MB/s) - `livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso' saved [730388480]
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WhiteSpade
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We have mirrors here at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Our network is still Cat3 in the dorms, so no 100Mb or anything, but still faster than downloading from the internet.
http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/
ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/
---Alex
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weibullguy
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jcmuse
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| pretty sweet guys. im at ufl now so i get to use the open-systems mirror. 1Gbps to my dorm = LAN speed goodness:) i think this is reason enough to put up with the crappy dorm. |
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tylerwylie
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I was hanging out at my little brother's dorm room in G.A. tech and had my gentoo laptop there, and I knew GA tech hosts a mirror, so I downloaded about 5gb of distfiles in a matter of minutes(if that), it was so awesome. Then played some Starcraft/UT2004 down there, always games going on there for one of those games...love it. |
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jcmuse
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| tylerwylie wrote: | | Then played some Starcraft/UT2004 down there, always games going on there for one of those games...love it. |
yeah, that is one cool thing about engineering schools. Too bad the male to female ratio is 69% to 31% LOL |
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EmperorofUnivrse
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:58 am Post subject: |
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Yes, at opensystems.ufl.edu
I get incredible speeds! (When not on wireless) |
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jcmuse
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:36 am Post subject: |
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| are you on campus ? |
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