Debian sources

Local Debian mirrors

Internet Solutions

Unstable:

deb ftp://ftp.is.co.za/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/ftp.debian.org/non-us.debian.org/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

Testing:

deb ftp://ftp.is.co.za/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/ftp.debian.org/non-us.debian.org/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free

Stable:

deb ftp://ftp.is.co.za/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/ftp.debian.org/non-us.debian.org/ stable/non-US main contrib non-free

Popular software

MPlayer, Acrobat reader:

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

Looking for more Debian packages?

Try a search at http://www.apt-get.org

Mixing multiple releases

Want to have more than one Debian release (i.e. testing & unstable) in your sources.list file and still track testing?

Create the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01release with the contents:

APT::Default-Release "testing";

Now by default when you apt-get install something, it will be from testing. If you want to install a package from unstable, you can install it by appending /unstable to the name of the package in your apt-get command line, i.e.:

apt-get install mozilla-firefox/unstable

Gentoo sources

Local Gentoo Portage tree mirrors

Add these to the SYNC= variable in /etc/make.conf (space-separated)

rsync://rsync.rucus.ru.ac.za/gentoo-portage

Local Gentoo distfiles mirrors

Add these to the GENTOO_MIRRORS variable in /etc/make.conf (space-separated)

ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/gentoo.org/
ftp://ftp.rucus.ru.ac.za/pub/linux/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.up.ac.za/mirrors/gentoo.org/

(These are the ones I'm using. Please add more.)

SuSE sources

SuSE can make use of the apt system by using a specialised version of apt called apt4rpm, and special rpm repositories. You need to download the version of apt that has been modified to handle rpms in order to use the apt4rpm repositories.

Find out more about apt4rpm at http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/.

Find out more about apt4rpm specifically for SuSE at http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/.