Fedora 9 is here!!!
May 13, 2008
At exactly 19:15 IST, in 45 mins from now, Fedora 9 will be available for download.
In addition to our ftp, we have a few reserved rsync access.
If you want special access (For distributing among many people, release party etc etc…) please write to indradg requesting access.
I am sure it will be available from other mirrors too, but given that all are not synced yet and keeping in mind the rush that will be generated, it is highly probable that you have to wait for a few hours if not days.
We all are eagerly waiting for the expected mess up…
Fedora 9 is getting synced.
May 9, 2008
Today after a few hours of struggles, I managed to get rsync work.
So Fedora 9 is happily getting synced to my mirror and it will be done by the release time.
For a few days, 4 to be precise, we must keep ourselves offline to get the whole bandwidth.
Though I have marked ourselves “disabled”, people trying to update F8 or F7 may get timeout for next one hour or so.
Sorry for that.
Will come back with Fedora 9. 
WBUT has joined NTP cluster.
May 4, 2008
What gives you a euphoric feeling?
For me, it’s a sleepless night, a graph (synchronized every half an hour) slowly moving towards the cut in line, combined with, well, a book of cryptography and coding ;).
Yesterday, I (or we at WBUT) configured and included ourselves in the NTP cluster. The machine which hosts this server is orca.wbut.ac.in. From now onwards, most of the time sync requests from India is going to be redirected towards us and we are happy to have them.
As always, we are the first and sole participant from India in the cluster. I am extremely hopeful that we will soon get a few more servers across India.
Anyway, we are currently operating as stratum 2 server. But soon we may be getting hold of a card like this and upgrade ourself to a stratum 1 server.
Before closing, two screenshots.
1. Our score (cut off is 5)
2. And our sync
PS: As this cluster is extremely sensitive, it takes 4-5 hours to re sync once a server is out of sync or rebooted.
