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Subject: Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?
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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.