[PLUG] New Indian ubuntu mirror

[Vishal Rao]

Update at bottom...

On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 at 01:08, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:

> at bottom :-
>
> On 07/07/2017, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com at gmail.com> wrote:
> > COEP and/or IIIT in Pune could be a good choice in the near future.
> > I saw an ad in the newspaper today from COEP for supply of 1000 and 300
> meg
> > of bandwidth for these organisations.
> > God only knows why they need so much of bandwidth. Can be utilised for
> > hosting mirrors for sure.
> >
> > -Sudhanwa
> >
> >
>
> I know most of the hostels have wi-fi access so they may be
> downloading stuff, also they do have a 3-d printer so files for that
> would be somewhat heavy I imagine, apart from that, yes if they want
> they can dedicate bandwidth for mirror hosting.
>
> There was talk couple of years ago to have mirrors of foss distros.
> and also make them available via wi-fi to people around campus as well
> as radius of around 200 metres or so people could download distros,
> updates etc. but the discussion went no-where.
>
> Keeping mirror current and fixing when it goes down is dedicated work,
> it's upto the COEP folks and their mgmt. if they want to take up the
> challenge.
>
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Just a quick update that the PicoNets Indian mirror now has a few more
distros available including Fedora!

See http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/

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