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/
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.
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. Another interesting option is to host India-specific ISO torrents, though the efficacy of that is debatable.
Happy to see a Fedora India list. Easier to join a list than to get PGP signatures and join the Fedora Project wiki.
Cheers! Saurabh
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
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