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jstarks
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 3:49 pm Post subject: Ideal Debian source |
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I think has been mentioned before, but anyone on hosts located at HE: you might want to use mirrors.kernel.org in your /etc/apt/sources.list for your Debian updates. It's only 6 hops away, with a ping of 3.3ms for me at host15; I get over 1MB/s downloads.
Top notch, I tell you. |
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Maturin
Joined: 12 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks! |
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Cool_blade
Joined: 10 Feb 2004
Posts: 6
Location: Brisbane - Australia
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| Now what would be awesome would be a debian mirror on linode.... |
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blahrus
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Posts: 35
Location: Bloomington, IL
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:14 am Post subject: |
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Yea it would be very cool . . . and if it's stable it will only get updated once every 2 years :D j/k!!!
I love Debian . . . . Just think it is amazing how long it takes some things to become "stable".
It can been a very good thing. |
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mcowger
Joined: 11 Feb 2004
Posts: 25
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| A Gentoo GRP mirror would be nice too. |
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gmt
Joined: 20 Jul 2003
Posts: 96
Location: Tropical Queensland, Australia
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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I tried my first debian install on a machine at home last week - I thought it was a shocker !
Maybe I should try the new graphical installer. |
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sarge
Joined: 19 Dec 2004
Posts: 58
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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The speed of mirrors might vary from time-to-time as some get much more popular.
After backing up your /etc/apt/sources.list, just install and run apt-spy.
apt-spy will test the speed of connection from your server to the Debian mirros and automatically create the appropriate sources.list.
Keep in mind apt-spy might take minutes to finish running, depending on the number of servers it tests. You can limit this and other settings using parameters. |
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