[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE

[Peter Wright]

> Peter Wright wrote:
>>> On 5/9/06, Peter Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 9 May 2006 12:19:36 -0400
>>>>> Isaac Levy <ike at lesmuug.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Did anyone notice that the new logo is finally creeping into the
>>>>>> site too?  :)
>>>>> I did notice that javascript has crept into the site.
>>>>>
>>>>> (beastie wasn't evil until he started spitting hot java on me)
>>>>>
>>>> shudder ;)
>>>>
>>>> so, i've got a mirror up for nycbuger's.  it's only serving up i386
>>>> and
>>>> amd64 now, time/space permitting i'll throw up other iso's if there
>>>> are
>>>> requests.  ftp to:
>>>>
>>>> mirrors.nycbug.org
>>>>
>>>> and, again a big thanks to NYI for donating space and bandwidth to the
>>>> BSD
>>>> community and NYCBUG!
>>> any plans for cvsup, or would you like some help setting it up?
>>>
>>
>> oh yea we have plans for offering a full mirror of freebsd.org ;^)  as
>> of
>> now, we are waiting on getting appropriate hardware for this mirror.  we
>> do have a lead we are working on, but if anyone would like to sponsor a
>> disk subsystem, or server with RAID capabilities to NYCBUG let me know.
>>
>> the big picture is to have tier-1 mirrors for as many of the projects as
>> possible.  We already host ftp.nyc.openbsd.org in our colo cabinet, and
>> FreeBSD will be the next step...followed by Net and other projects as
>> time/hardware permits.
>>
>> -pete
>>
>>
>
> yes. ..  in addition to various other projects such as Freesbie, etc.
>
>
> but the obsd mirror is actually ftp2.usa.openbsd.org. . . and
> apparently, it's so fast, that it gets lots of traffic from Canada. . .
> LOL
>

really that's awesome!  they should update the openbsd mirror page then as
it's listed as ftp.nyc.openbsd.org (still resolves though...)

-p



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