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