I would like to inquire if it was possible to put up a single mirror of the Skolelinux ISO at some suitable location in Egypt say at a University that is well connected to the Internet. I do not expect there to be many downloads, but as this is a highly efficient thinclient solution for Schools it might prove vital in the development of Egypt. (Or the world for that matter)
now this raises an interesting question, are there any public FTP mirrors in Egypt? or any servers that can carry ISOs and other useful FOSS software?
I notice alot of activity on my rsync server because it carries full Mandrake community and PLF mirrors, and the occasional copy of OSSCD and Knoppix, all this activity is from local IPs, does this mean we need local mirrors? or is it just EGLUG IRC lurkers being lazy?
I suppose bittorrent is a better option, but maybe it doesn't work for low interest files, OSSCD torrent crawls a couple of weeks after the new release.
cheers, Alaa
ISP's
I remember there was a Tucows mirror in one of the old ISP's, but in this case and ISP won't be interested to host something like this, maybe some governmental servers like the ministry of education (if they do have any).
tedata
Maybe tedata can do this ? They use FLOSS and IMHO they might do this as a kind o support.
Quote "c u next life time then when i come back as a mug of tea :P"
bibalex
bibalex folks are archiving the internet. I wonder if they can spare a small portion as an FTP mirror.
public archives
The first time I downloaded Redhat it was from an AUC ftp server. tucows server was by menanet AFAIK and you had to use thier dial up number to download from them. The nearest mirrors I know of are .il and .sa
Geographically .il and .sa ar
Geographically .il and .sa are close, but when you look at the network topology are they really the closest? I'm aware that most of our internet connections are with europe and the US i think.
And yeah...the ISPs should really have mirrors...hmm..TEDATA...nile-online..etc..
Regards, Akef