India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

Anthony Atkielski atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr
Thu Apr 14 10:49:18 PDT 2005


Subhro writes:

> True, bust most Universities have things like 5 128K links tagged
> together. Put this down plain and simple, bandwidth is really really 
> scarce in India.

That has to change, and soon.  There's no cure for a shortage of
bandwidth except more bandwidth.  Lay the fiber and light it.

> Right. But most Universities are simply not interested and tag BSD as
> "not for the masses" OS.

THey are right.  No version of UNIX is for the masses, nor is Linux.
But for servers, UNIX has an edge in many situations (not so much
Linux).  For the masses, Windows is best; if Windows is not available,
then I suppose Linux would be better than nothing (but not much better).

> In the Indian Scenario, a handful of *BSD users are considered Wizards
> and non Microsoft OS implies Linux.

I thought India was supposed to be speeding ahead in IT; it doesn't
sound like it's even in the running from what you're saying.

-- 
Anthony




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