Here I summarized many famous Unix-like or Linux-like systems and the http and ftp mirrors for getting them.
While, this is not my original purpose, I can download each project from Apache Software Foundation, but I want to download the whole distribution of ASF, of course I have more than 1 Terabyte hard disk for storing stuff. I searched from the Apache home page and found the ftp mirrors, I found most of the mirrors did not only be a mirror of Apache, but also be a mirror of many open source project, such as Fedora project, Ubuntu project...... So, I can use a GUI ftp tool to download the while directory tree.
So, I create a memo for the ftp sites.
Http and Ftp sites list:
(Note that you can access some http host using ftp protocol.)
OpenSolaris mirrors:
http://www.opensolaris.com/get/index.jsp#mirrors
OpenBSD mirrors:
http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html#ftp
Fedora project mirrors:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist
CentOS mirrors:
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30
Ubuntu mirrors:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
(Right click on the page and viewing the page source, you will find the mirrors sites URLs)
Debian mirrors:
http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#mirrors
FreeBSD mirrors:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html#MIRRORS-FTP
NetBSD mirrors:
http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/#ftp
Apache Software Foundation mirrors:
http://www.apache.org/mirrors/
GNU mirrors:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
May you like it!
Oh, by the way, here is the list of all unix-like and linux-like operation systems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alinex#Ubuntu-based
And, an opensource ftp server&client software is FileZilla which hosted by SourceForge. Here is the home page url: http://filezilla-project.org/