{Solved} Great Distro! Pity there's no Australian Mirror.

[old_croc]

MX-Linux 18 is a great distro. Fast, lean, and easy to install. Plus it's Debian-based,which I reckon is a real plus.

But what about an Australian mirror? Australia, pop.24.7 million, has a thriving Linux community. It's no surprise that most popular Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Linuxmint etc. have several fast, dependable mirrors around the Country. The closest MX-linux mirror, in contrast, is in New Zealand, 2000km away across the Tasman Sea,and it's painfully slow from here.

Does anyone know whether any moves are afoot to address this?

[Stevo]

It sure seems like an oversight to leave out an entire continent! Let's see what can be done.

[fehlix]

But what about an Australian mirror?

Have you tried MX Repo Manager, which should show you to select one of those:

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Australia, Launceston - http://mirror.launtel.net.au/repo/mx
Australia, Melbourne - http://mx.mirror.ausnetservers.net.au/packages
Australia, Sydney - http://mirror.datamossa.io/mxlinux

Might be you need to update the MX-repo package first.

EDIT: In case you referring with "mirror" to ISO-download mirror have a look here:

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https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/iso-download-mirrors

[kmathern]

Like felix said, there's at least three Australian MX mirrors:

aussie-mx-mirrors.png

[old_croc]

Have you tried MX Repo Manager, which should show you to select one of those:

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Australia, Launceston - http://mirror.launtel.net.au/repo/mx
Australia, Melbourne - http://mx.mirror.ausnetservers.net.au/packages
Australia, Sydney - http://mirror.datamossa.io/mxlinux

Thanks Fehlix!

I've been around many other Linux distros since 1997, but obviously I still have much to learn about MX-Linux!