I would use a Debian and/or Ubuntu mirror if there were one on campus, but I would only use the package archives, not CD/DVD images...
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:20:40PM -0500, Ken Tossell wrote: > Hi UMLUG, > > I'm sure some of you know the LUG used to maintain a mirror for > various distributions on AFS. Unfortunately, it was last updated in > May 2004, with Fedora Core 2. > > I'd like to get it going again. I've started pulling down a few > distributions' CD/DVD archives, but I'd like to know how much > interest you all have in a local mirror, so: > > - Do you think we should operate a distribution mirror? Would you use it? > - Should we mirror just CD/DVD images or also host package archives? (This > means a lot of space, but we have it.) > - What distributions, if any, should the mirror have? (The business school > already mirrors CentOS.) > - Should this mirror be accessible from off the campus (with restrictions, > such as only allowing UMD users, and depending on the university's OK)? > - Other projects? > > - Ken >
