tug.ctan.org now at utah
CTAN Announcements
ctan-ann at dante.de
Wed Jan 23 17:53:25 CET 2013
Hello TeX folk,
The host tug.ctan.org now resolves to the new official North American
redistribution site at the University of Utah, thanks to
long-time TeX stalwart Nelson Beebe, Pieter Bowman, and their
institution's support.
So, folks in North America (and maybe elsewhere) should consider
tug.ctan.org when using an explicit CTAN host. By rsync:
rsync://tug.ctan.org/CTAN/
rsync is by far the most efficient way to do transfers, but of course
the site is also available by ftp and http:
ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/
The Utah site is itself updated hourly, so there is no worry about stale
material.
As a reminder, there is the generic redirector
http://mirror.ctan.org/
which should go to an up-to-date and "nearby" host. We recommend using
this url in articles, mailing list posts, etc., to better balance
CTAN traffic. For example,
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/
Great thanks also to Jim Hefferon for years of hosting the master
North American mirror of (and participating in) CTAN
at St. Michael's College.
Karl
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