Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:36:42 +0530 From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> To: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!? Message-ID: <425E32A2.1080809@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050414071958.23388.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050414071958.23388.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com>
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Rob wrote: >Hi, > >I recommended FreeBSD to a friend of mine in India >and discovered to my great astonishment that there's >no mirror site in India, at least none is listed >on the official FreeBSD mirror site: > > Yeh you are right. >http://www.freebsd.org/.../handbook/mirrors-ftp.html > >I would have expected several mirror sites there, >with India becoming one the software development >centers in the world..... > > > Well the main issue is, bandwidth is very very costly in India. The amount of bandwidth that would cost 40 USD in US would cost around 350 USD in India. >Is nobody or no institute in India interested in >setting up a FreeBSD mirror site? Or is (Free)BSD >an unknown/unused OS in India. > > FreeBSD is definitely not used as much as Linux as far as Indian scenario is concerned. And I am really sorry to say, maximum boxes are ruled by windows, that too pirated editions :-( >For comparison: China has 2 mirrors, Taiwan has 16, >Korea 2, Japan 9, Indonesia 1 and HongKong 1. >India has none! > > I would speak to my ISP and try to convince them to set up a mirror here. Lets see what works out. Regards S.
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