Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Lode Vermeiren <lvermeiren@xxxxxxxxxx>]

houghi schreef:

> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 03:19:11AM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
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> > To Lode: yep, ftp.belnet.be would definately be a killer. AFAICR it's sitting on the backbone
> > between Frankfurt and Amsterdam, so it should be a decent alternative for people outside Belgium as
> > well.
> >    
>
> Oh God, yes please. Belnet would be a great adition. They already mirror
> one or two other distro's, so openSUSE would be a great addition.
>  
One or two?  Make that 20 :)

Belnet is indeed a killer network. They host the Belgian internet 
exchange (BNIX), and are just a few hops away from most major European 
IXs. AFAIK they are also connected to Internet2.

At present they mirror the following distros:

SuSe, arch, aurora, aosity, centos, crux, damnsmallinux, debian, 
edulinux, fedora, fnux, foresight, frugalware, gentoo, gnoppix, knoppix, 
lineox, linuxfromskratch, mandrake, mepis, netwosix,pclinux, redhat, 
slackware, specifix (now rpath), startcom, ubuntu, whiteboxlinux, 
whoppix, YDL, yoper and a few more.
In addition they host things like apache, binds, backports.org, linux 
kernel, openoffice, openbsd, freebsd, openssl, and lots of other cool 
stuff. They used to host a Sourceforge mirror, but apparently they dont 
anymore. It's one of the best mirror sites around.

I used to be connected directly to Belnet (100 Mbit port to a switch 
with a Gbit uplink) .. Ah.. those were the days.

I'll mail the maintainer again to see if he's open for an openSUSE mirror.

Best,
Lode