Facebook has a great mirror site for the CentOS ISO’s.

http://mirror.facebook.com/centos/5.5/os/x86_64

Another fast mirror is the USC Linux Users Group Mirror:  http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/centos/5.5/

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This has been one of the fastest mirrors I have found for CentOS.  It’s nice to see a social networking site giving back to the Linux community.

If you access the Internet through a proxy, then you’re out of luck…  Another option is to create a mirror server on your LAN.

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11510

Facebook: Fast CentOS mirror

4 Responses to “Facebook: Fast CentOS mirror”


  1. 1 Ryan

    Just tried it with a CentOS netinstall. It is fast!

  2. 2 david

    I like NetInstall best, it’s very handy!

  3. 3 Andreas Wacker

    facebook seems no longer to host any image

  4. 4 david

    They only host the latest version. I updated the link on my site to point to CentOS 5.5. Another fast mirror I’ve been using is USC. http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/centos/5.5/

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