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Building Linux mirrors in Africa

Ish Sookun

A quick glance at mirrors.opensuse.org gives an idea on the disparity between the African continent and the rest of the world in terms of infrastructure to support open source. It's not just openSUSE but every other Linux distribution has just one or two, or no mirror at all in Africa.

A quick glance at mirrors.opensuse.org gives an idea on the disparity between the African continent and the rest of the world in terms of infrastructure to support open source. It's not just openSUSE but every other Linux distribution has just one or two, or no mirror at all in Africa.