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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"