It's been a busy semester so I haven't been blogging as much as I did last semester, but I've got several topics to write about in the coming weeks as classes wind down.
Last week I made public the on-campus free/open source software mirror sponsored by the Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software (RCOS) This mirror provides two very important services to the RPI community. First, it provides a complete mirror of the Ubuntu archive. Second, it provides RPI with a large collection of Linux and *BSD ISO torrents to download.
If you're on RPI's campus (128.113.0.0/16 or 128.213.0.0/16) you can access our mirror here. The mirror is restricted to only users on campus because of limitations on RPI's upstream bandwidth.
In a future article I'll describe the architecture of the torrent network and provide the software necessary for other users to create their own local free software repositories.