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“Where are the local mirrors?”

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 at 18:44 • Chetan • Filed under India, Linux, OS, Wishful Thinking

“Where are the local mirrors?” asks Indranil Das Gupta—a FOSS.in contributor and a mirror host. His post has interesting statistics from mirror.wbut.ac.in:

The last stat, imho, tells the most interesting story. That 94.3% or 352.46 GB out of 373.68 GB [is] comprised of ISOs.

In fact, instead of “Official Country Mirrors”, IMHO, we need several “local” (read regional / state-wise) mirrors in India.. So, let 100 mirrors bloom!

I couldn’t agree more. Organizations, government and educational institutions with unlimited bandwidth can make this happen. Without local mirrors, FOSS as an ideology and its actual usage is hard to imagine; and that would be a shame since India is such a pro open-source country.

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