STC have opened a mirror server for hosting open source files. The server currently have mirrors for CentOS, OpenSuse, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, CPAN, MySQL and OpenOffice. This is not the first mirror of it’s kind in Saudi Arabia, The Internet Service Unit have one as well (mirrors.isu.net.sa).
Mirrors are regular file servers (HTTP or FTP) that provide a copy of a file that is closer to the person. Basically increasing the download speed and reducing the load on the main servers.
Via Yousef Raffah.
Update: There is another mirror, thanks to Abdulhadi for showing me this mirror download.net.sa provided by Bayanat, a Mobily company.
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Finally we have our own mirror server for open source. This took too many years for someone here to take the initiative….
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khaled Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Saudi Arabia already had mirrors provided by ISU (KACST) for many years.
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Just forgot to thank the person who was behind this idea. So whoever you are THANK YOU
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sorry but what is the benefit for that mirror ??!!
could plz give me links to understand this service?
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