[CLUE-Tech] debian mirrors
Randy Arabie
rrarabie at arabie.org
Fri Oct 11 05:41:52 MDT 2002
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Matt Gushee wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:28:49PM -0600, Randy Arabie wrote:
> >
> > I'm giving debian my first try, and I was wondering if any of you debian
> > fans could recommend a favorite mirror to put in my apt list?
> >
> > I didn't see any of the local Uni's listed in the mirrors :(
>
> I used to like the U of Michigan archive--it was complete, up-to-date,
> and *very* fast. But they seem to have dropped Debian, or shut out
> non-university people, or something.
>
> I don't really have a favorite right now. But if you want to get a sense
> of the download speeds, there's a program called netselect that will
> help. You feed it a list of hosts, and it tries them all and outputs
> statistics. It's pretty cool.
>
Thanks. That does sound cool. I'll have to give it a try.
--
Allons Rouler!
Randy
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