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Re: athena 10 page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth Arnold)
Wed Aug 13 19:27:22 2008
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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:26:35 -0400
From: Kenneth Arnold <kcarnold@MIT.EDU>
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To: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
CC: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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Timothy G Abbott wrote:
> I also would anti-recommend the Media Lab mirror, as it goes down
> sometimes (someone who uses Ubuntu could give details).
I personally use the Media Lab mirror on several machines; it hasn't
been down in a way that I've noticed for at least 6 months.
I know the admin, too. Last I checked, the server hosting it was just
sitting in his office for a while, but plans were in the works to get it
a more permanent home. That may have happened already; saying that
Athena 10 was recommending it as a mirror would definitely bump it up on
the priority list.
I can check on anything else about it if necessary.
(/me wonders why Ubuntu isn't just using bittorrent or the like... or
implement fallback mirrors cleanly.)
-Ken
