Re: [SLUG] ibiblio question

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sun May 29 2005 - 18:32:56 EDT


On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:54:36AM -0400, Eben King wrote:

> Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> >Used to be, you could get any open source software from metalab.unc.edu.
> >Then they changed the name to ibiblio. When you downloaded software from
> >sourceforge, one of the download options was ibiblio. This was good
> >because it was close (North Carolina) and it was the old metalab. Now, I
> >never see ibiblio as a choice when I go to download something from
> >sourceforge. Anyone know why?
>
> I get the choice of Internap in Atlanta. Isn't that closer by internet?

Geographically, it's closer. But ibiblio/metalab was "old reliable".

Paul
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