On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Boaz Rymland wrote:
> > week a fast server for the soul purpose of mirroring everything linux,
> > opensource and free software to Israel. we need a local mirror of the
> > major distros (as disk space allows at the first stage) and the kernel,
> Hmmm... you probably know this but in case you don't - the Technion has
> anonymous ftp service with which anyone in Israel can enjoy a local and
then why is it not linked nicely from linux.org.il? one has to dig
deeply into the FAQ file.
Webmaster! where are you?
> fast mirror or Redhat (and I think other distro's) linux and their
> POwerTools also. Also, there is the local LDP main site mirror which is
> very good, at http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/support/docs/Linux/mdw/ .
I'm going to mirror linuxdoc as well as other useful texts wherever
possible. like the JDK 1.1 and 1.2 APIs, VIM html help system and
various Unix online manuals.
> Not that I'm against a central, comprehensive, mirror site. On the
> contrary! But if what you plan will include more or less the mentioned
> above, than just FYI, it already exists.
well, I'll try to make it to be a megaserver, and anyone can ask for
anything to be mirrored. kernels, distros, web and FTP sites, CPAN,
popular tools, GNU everything. the entire rpmfind archives if I see I
can.
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Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast
Linux is obsolete
(Andrew Tanenbaum)
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