MIT Sets up Mirror Site for Apple Software Updates

MIT recently became a mirror site for Apple Software Updates. 
These free online updates are for customers who have purchased 
Apple software - from operating systems and utilities to networking 
and printing software. When you want a Mac OS update or the latest 
version of Open Transport or a printer driver, Apple Software 
Updates is the place to go.

While you can get these updates from Apple's ftp servers, traffic on 
the Apple site is often heavy. Having a mirror site at MIT should 
make it much easier and faster to get the updates.

Mirror, Mirror
Apple has established many mirror sites from which the same 
software may be downloaded. In the case of MIT, the mirror site is 
on net-dist, a network software server, and is available only to 
members of the MIT community.
 
You can get to MIT's Apple mirror site using Fetch or your Web 
browser. The address is

ftp://net-dist.mit.edu/mirrors/Apple.Software.Updates/

To find out more about the mirror site and what you need to 
download updates, see 

http://web/is/help/macos/mirror.html

This Web page includes a link to an alphabetical index of the 
updates. Each update entry is followed by the path to its location.

A Caveat
Be aware that IS doesn't support every piece of software in the 
Apple mirrors directory. If you aren't sure about a particular piece 
of software, contact the Computing Help Desk at x3-1101 or 
<mac-help@mit.edu>.