[WBEL-devel] Re: [WBEL-users] NCSU dropped the box

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com
Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:26:26 -0600


On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 21:02 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 21:50 -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Lem Tomas wrote:
> > 
> > > anyone notice that NCSU removed whitebox from their list of mirrored
> > > OS's.  they replaced it with cAos. arg!
> > ...
> > > As of January 1st 2005 this mirror no longer contains White Box Enterprise
> > > Linux please use another mirror from
> > > http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/download.html
> > 
> > This kind of sucks.  Are there other whitebox mirrors that allow rsync? If
> > I can get cooperation (from both ends), I'll ask management if we can
> > dedicate a server with at least raid1 to being a whitebox (and maybe other
> > things) mirror/rsync server for other mirrors.  We've got pipe (couple
> > hundred mbit/s to the net...and always growing).  The current
> > whitebox.atlantic.net does enough other things that I wouldn't feel good
> > about opening up an rsyncd on it.
> > 
> 
> The only other rsync whitebox mirror I know of is:
> 
> rsync mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca::whitebox
> 
> 
There is also an rsync server at gatech for whitebox:

rsync rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu::whitebox