India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

[RW]

On Thursday 14 April 2005 14:35, Subhro wrote:
> Good idea Brian. But the saddest part is as I have indicated above,
> Linux rules :-( and FreeBSD is for the heavy duty software
> professionals. The astonishing fact is that, my ISP BSNL, which is
> supposed to be the biggest ISP in India does not know how to set up a
> PPPoE connection on a FBSD box. After I subscribed to my broadband
> service, which was one month back, tilldate they have not been able to
> do my setup. They have visited my place more than 10 times and tried to
> installed RasPPPoE for Linux 


That's actually quite impressive. 

Most UK ISPs wont even touch Linux. If I'd tried to ask my ISP to setup 
FreeBSD, I'd have to go through an Indian call-centre where I'd get asked 
which versions of Windows and Internet Explorer I'm using.