The two primary anonymous FTP servers for Linux/MIPS are
This server should satisfy almost all your Linux/MIPS related ftp desires. Really.
This server is currently pretty outdated; it's included here mostly for completeness and for people with interest in prehistoric software.
For those who always want to stay on the bleeding edge and want to avoid having to download patch files or full tarballs we also have an anonymous CVS server. Using CVS you can checkout the Linux/MIPS source tree with the following commands:
cvs -d :pserver:cvs@linus.linux.sgi.com:/cvs login (Only needed the first time you use anonymous CVS, the password is "cvs") cvs -d :pserver:cvs@linus.linux.sgi.com:/cvs co <repository>where you insert linux, libc, or gdb for <repository>.
The other important CVS archive of the Linux community is vger.rutgers.edu where a lot of code is being collected before being sent to Linus for distribution. Although vger itself no longer offers anonymous access, there are mirror sites which do provide anonymous access. For details how to access them see http://cvs.on.openprojects.net/. The modules which are of interest are “linux”, “modutils”, “pciutils”, “netutils”.
The two primary anonymous web servers for Linux/MIPS are
This server covers most of Linux/MIPS; it's somewhat SGI centric but since Linux/MIPS tries to be the same on every platform most of its information is of interest to all users.
This server is currently pretty outdated; it's included here mostly for completeness.
There are three Linux/MIPS oriented mailing lists:
This mailing list is used for most non-SGI related communication of all kinds. Subscription is handled by a human; send your subscription requests to linux-mips-mips@fnet.fr. You can unsubscribe from this mailing list by sending unsubscribe <your-email-address> to the same address.
This mailing list currently has the most traffic. It's somewhat SGI-centric but is nevertheless of interest especially to developers as a good number of SGI engineers are subscribed to this list. Subscription to this list is handled via Majordomo (majordomo@engr.sgi.com); just send an email with the words subscribe linux-mips. In order to unsubscribe send unsubscribe linux-mips. Note that you have to be subscribed if you want to post; the growth of spam forced us into that policy.
This mailing list has only very low traffic as most people tend to use one of the above mailing lists. Subscription is handled via Majordomo (majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu); just send an email with the words subscribe linux-mips. In order to unsubscribe send unsubscribe linux-mips.