i think tucows has a mirror with infocom/pldt. and its practically easy for local isp
subscribers to download via phix.
JHon
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> Oo nga, dont we have a local high speed mirror site wherein you
>can download practically all free software (not just linux). In
>Australia, they have a high-speed network connecting all universities and
>research centers. For example, if you install RH7.1, all you need is a
>floppy with bootnet.img then pt your source to mirror.aarnet.edu.au.
>After that, you can see RH being downloaded at 500kB/sec at least. After
>few minutes, installation is complete. That is astonishing considering
>the server is located at Univ of Queensland ( 2hrs by plane from ANU ).
> I guess this is one way of promoting linux.
>
>-rowel
>
>> hmm. accessing those sites outside the country is truly a pain
>> specially for us dial-up users in the province. are there any plans
>> to locally mirror those important sites like:
>>
>> www.kernel.org
>> www.linuxdoc.org
>>
>> to name a few. i know hardware resources would be a problem but
>> volunteer maintainers naman siguro marami.
>>
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