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Metalab Takes Down Linux Archive

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-was-just-a-waste-of-space-anyway dept.

REwT6 wrote in to say that Metalab, the archive formerly known as Sunsite, is shutting down. Having served the Linux and Open Source as the defacto clearing house for free software, it will be missed. Next week it will begin its new life as a mirror of download.com.

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  1. Another one bites the dust by pica · · Score: 2

    Ahhhh, finally. Metalab was terrible, anyway. Good ridance! But, really, the Linus story wasn't very believable to begin with... I guess the slow people will gasp when reading this story. We need one of these days at the start of every month.

    =)

  2. This is not good. by Zathras · · Score: 2

    This is not good at all. I checked out Metalab myself to see of this was true. And it is.

    What does Linus moving to Russia have to do with shutting down the Linux archive at Metalab? That is what they state on the site.

    Sad, very sad!

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    --- "Zathras talks to dirt, sometimes talks to ceiling and walls, but dirt is closer."
  3. It's about time. by jerodd · · Score: 2
    I've been waiting for this to happen. Now I won't get annoying in #linux anymore when people ask me to where to find downloads `coz I'll say ``Sorry pup, there AREN'T any! You'll have to pay for it!''

    I think this goes with RMS's recent announcement on gnu.misc.discuss of the change to the GPL 3 which requires a $10 licencing fee to be paid to the FSF everytime a copy changes hands. All I can say is: it's about time SOMEBODY gave the FSF some money.

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    --jon. Postel is dead. May we all mourn his, and our, loss.
  4. cute by SuperGeek · · Score: 3

    MetaLab Presents

    April, 1999


    NOTICE: Due to Linus Torvald's imminent departure from
    the US and the upcoming release of Windows 2000, we
    will begin systematically deleting our entire Linux archive
    over the next week and replace it with a new mirror of
    www.download.com. Download all the free software you
    can now before it's all gone!