Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:47:42 +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: <425E97A6.7020804@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050414160710.93703.qmail@web54008.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050414160710.93703.qmail@web54008.mail.yahoo.com>
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Rob wrote: >I guess this is typical for home connections in India. > > True, bust most Universities have things like 5 128K links tagged together. Put this down plain and simple, bandwidth is really really scarce in India. >Of course, a Linux and/or BSD mirror should be >hosted by such a research institute, most probably >by the computer science departement. > > Right. But most Universities are simply not interested and tag BSD as "not for the masses" OS. In the Indian Scenario, a handful of *BSD users are considered Wizards and non Microsoft OS implies Linux. Best Regards, S.
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