On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Andy Blanchard <zocalo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bravo! Have a Fedora Community Gold Star award! > > OK, I made that up, but personally getting a new mirror established in an > area where there are not a great deal to choose from in the first place at > least deserves some kind of honerable mention in Fedora Weekly News or some > such, IMHO. Chasing sysadmins to get local mirrors has been a hobby of mine for the last decade. I started with Sun and its former "SunSite"... who told me 11 yrs ago that they had donated a server for that purpose to UBA.ar university but that they ended up repurposing the server for another project. (go figure). Then this year I contacted scientific body CONICET (whom host CentOS mirrors at centos.mirror.mendoza-conicet.gob.ar) but they replied they lacked enough bandwidth. Then I approached a local FTTH ISP (http://www.phonevision.com.ar) whom first balked at the idea due to disk space concerns. I later told them they could mirror just f16, f17 for a fraction of the total space using ´excludes´)... they were open to the idea and forgot to follow-up with them... So, let´s cross fingers and wait until ArSat does something... it´d be very great news if they do. I admit my interest is purely egotistical, as all I want is faster downloads and installs from a local repo. ;) FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
