[LUGSB] A fast Ubuntu mirror

[Aaron Pellman-Isaacs]

I'm not sure if they have an ubuntu mirror up, but I've usually found 
MIT to be blazingly fast for debian (and rather slower when their I2 
connection died) :-p.
--Aaron
Michael F. Lamb wrote:
> Ubuntu users on campus,
>
> Based on some unscientific empirical testing, I've found that 
> Northeastern university provides an Ubuntu package mirror that is 
> quite fast compared to many others out there, at least for on-campus 
> users.
>
> There's various ways to tell your Ubuntu machine to use their mirror, 
> but to keep it brief, my /etc/apt/sources.list now looks like this:
>
> deb http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/archive.ubuntu.com/ edgy main 
> restricted universe multiverse
>
> deb http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/archive.ubuntu.com/ edgy-updates main 
> restricted universe multiverse
>
> deb http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/archive.ubuntu.com/ edgy-proposed main 
> restricted universe multiverse
>
> deb http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/archive.ubuntu.com/ edgy-security universe
>
> (Each entry beginning with 'deb' should be on a single line.)
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