I love Fedora so much that even though there is no local mirrors in Uzbekistan, which makes downloading things extremely slow(or very annoying), I cannot prevent myself from using Fedora. I know that some distros such as debian, ubuntu, arch linux provide local mirros,so download speed is usually normal. But why not Fedora? I heard some developers in my country contacted for this, but Redhat rejected it. Isn’t it possible? That’s sometimes very annoying: either I need to wait for another hours or use vpn to make the speed normal.
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It can have several reasons not having Mirrors in your country. One of it can be:
Embargoed nations - Fedora Project Wiki
Uzbekistan does not appear on the list of embargoed nations, so that probably is not the reason behind the country lacking a local mirror.
Do you have more specific information about the reason that was given for the rejection?
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I am not sure, unfortunately.
I do not think Uzbekistan is under embargoed list
It’s not about Uzbekistan as a nation, but it needs volunteers to run a mirror
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring
To improve download speeds, you could add a fastestmirror=True to your dnf config. See DNF5 Configuration Reference — dnf5 documentation
It shouldn’t really matter if you download from a Uzbeskistan or neighbor country mirror.
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It matters. Mirrors sometimes so slow that nothing can be downloaded
I live in Brazil and know how it is. Indeed with low bandwidth it is not nice to work. What is your mirror?
If it is to download a iso file you can choose the mirror using the mirror manager:
I use fastestmirror=True, and not sure what mirror I use. By the way, sometimes even downloading ISO takes days (my browser show so)
sudo dnf clean all
sudo dnf -v upgrade
You and your friends can set up your own local mirror service. It is usually done with an ISP or university.
Found an old Fedora Mirror over the Arch Mirror list:
Maybe get in contact with them, to reactivate as a full Fedora Mirror.
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I suspect something works stable in my country (jokingly), even arch mirrors which most linux users use in Uzbekistan, mirrors are sometimes extremely slow or packages are older to update. I think I will stick with global mirrors, which I did in Arch too
Have you tested a vpn like protonvpn. They offer a free version. Sometimes this helps a bit as for US you have free-servers to connect.
I think Uzbekistan still suffers from slow internet in general. Since I do have fiber optic and a good provider I could speed up my internet a lot. But also this we do just have a view years ago.
Within dnf you can try to increase max download to 10. This also made the download for updates faster for me.
I use protonvpn if the connection is really slow.
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