diff --git a/benchsuite/benchsuite b/benchsuite/benchsuite
index a70eb540..c6a87220 100755
--- a/benchsuite/benchsuite
+++ b/benchsuite/benchsuite
@@ -26,15 +26,13 @@ SUBTITLES_DIR = 'subtitles'
 SUBTITLES_EN_NAME = 'en.txt'
 SUBTITLES_EN_NAME_SAMPLE = 'en.sample.txt'
 SUBTITLES_EN_NAME_GZ = '%s.gz' % SUBTITLES_EN_NAME
-# SUBTITLES_EN_URL = 'http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/OpenSubtitles2016/mono/OpenSubtitles2016.raw.en.gz'  # noqa
 SUBTITLES_EN_URL = 'https://object.pouta.csc.fi/OPUS-OpenSubtitles/v2016/mono/en.txt.gz'  # noqa
 SUBTITLES_RU_NAME = 'ru.txt'
 SUBTITLES_RU_NAME_GZ = '%s.gz' % SUBTITLES_RU_NAME
-# SUBTITLES_RU_URL = 'http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/OpenSubtitles2016/mono/OpenSubtitles2016.raw.ru.gz'  # noqa
 SUBTITLES_RU_URL = 'https://object.pouta.csc.fi/OPUS-OpenSubtitles/v2016/mono/ru.txt.gz'  # noqa
 
 LINUX_DIR = 'linux'
-LINUX_CLONE = 'git://github.com/BurntSushi/linux'
+LINUX_CLONE = 'https://github.com/BurntSushi/linux'
 
 # Grep takes locale settings from the environment. There is a *substantial*
 # performance impact for enabling Unicode, so we need to handle this explicitly