I wrote:
> The most successful was Christian Marillat's "marillat.free.fr" host, in
> France -- _so_ successful that searching "marillat "debian" will find
> you any number of mirror sites, even though Marillat's own host has
> gone away.
>
> Recently, one such mirror has stepped forward and aspires to take
> marillat's place as a canonical site. So far, it has packages compiled
> for DEC Alpha, i386, AMD64, Itanic, and SPARC.
A highly similar site for Mandriva users (if there are any left who
haven't defected to Ubuntu, SUSE, etc.) is Penguin Liberation Front,
http://plf.zarb.org/ .
The DAG repository serves a similar purpose for Fedora Core:
http://dag.wieers.com/
For Ubuntu, as noted in the forwarded message, the debian-multimedia
(ex-marillat) repository is your friend.
As always with unofficial repositories, if your system breaks, your
remedy is that you get to keep both pieces. (You may encounter
problems; those are yours to deal with.)
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