Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.

1 of 80 comments (clear)

  1. 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!