Saurabh Jain (सौरभ जैन) wrote:
Hi folks
My first post on this list. Wanted to add to one of the topics in the archives.
IIT Madras has maintained a public mirror of Fedora for a long time.
It's not very up-to-date, but it's got ISOs, and usually gives good
throughput.
ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/fedora/
We have been in touch with the administrator who is been working on
getting this into the Fedora public mirror list.
Mirroring Fedora is very easy, and I think we need to promote the
concept of local mirrors in colleges and organisations. I maintain one
at home on ftp://home.saurabh.org.in/, and using reposync, it is a
piece of cake to schedule a daily cron job to synchronise. Gone are
the days when one had to rsync to
download.fedora.redhat.com.
True and we have been getting more mirrors as a result.
It would be great if a large Linux mirror is hosted in India at
NIXI.
Charges are stiff
http://nixi.in/fee.php, but donations can be raised.
I know people who know people at NIXI, so I should probably take the
initiative of going and meeting them once.
Sure. Keep us updated on the progress.
Another interesting option
is to host India-specific ISO torrents, though the efficacy of that
is
debatable.
I have been looking at having an Indian specific site for Fedora
Project. We could certainly host a torrent mirror.
Happy to see a Fedora India list. Easier to join a list than to get
PGP signatures and join the Fedora Project wiki.
We are working on making this a click through process. Waiting on a new
moin release upstream for that as indicated in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WikiEditing.
Welcome to Fedora India.
Rahul