From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 14 12:57:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E1616A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:57:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1335743D46 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:57:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 18so1289234nzp for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 05:57:27 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JPy/5J/RpFTRCoKlXVeM++0ZZ4kOS4A5fJGoxDmbtKO3fqBCs6bb2Yy8m7SJinVu0XeyyV70+K3X+BxdASGqEMLvycZWNsZZPXUTqlhEUdIxZRQHpIIPA9QXCJ+xwq6/WcTT06CPqL21TqLH7yTnUiZ4jBCUSzZPi6EIv9k5MJw= Received: by 10.36.82.18 with SMTP id f18mr109038nzb; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 05:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.47.11 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 05:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2b5f066d050414055716d3a12a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:57:27 -0400 From: Brian McCann To: Subhro In-Reply-To: <425E32A2.1080809@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050414071958.23388.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <425E32A2.1080809@gmail.com> cc: Rob cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Brian McCann List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:57:28 -0000 Another suggestion would be talk to a university or other large school that may be able to afford the bandwidth, or get it at a discounted rate. Heck, it's added publicity for them and they are helping the open source community. --Brian On 4/14/05, Subhro wrote: > Rob wrote: >=20 > >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. >=20 > >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. >=20 > >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 :-( >=20 > >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. >=20 > Regards > S. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >