Re: [squid-users] Setting up squid for Satellite.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Edward Millington
(Network Administrator & Senior Technical Support Technician)
Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
Wildey
St. Michael
Barbados
1-246-430-7435
Fax : 1-246-431-0170
www.cariaccess.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
To: "Edward" <edward@cariaccess.com>
Cc: <wojtek@3miasto.net>; "squid" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Setting up squid for Satellite.

> Use whatever OS you are comfortable with, Edward. Squid runs very
> solidly on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and probably a few
> other *nixen. The Cygwin port is reportedly stable on NT now too,
> though it will certainly run slower than on equivelent Unix hardware.
> Fact is, it's probably easiest for a beginner to use Red Hat for just
> the reason that Wojtek condemns it--because there is lots of good
> documentation out there to teach you how to do things specifically on
> Red Hat.
>
> Wojtek has a personal vendetta against all things Red Hat (and even all
> things Linux--referring to it as 'unstable' every chance he gets). It
> is safe to ignore the advice of one who has so much FUD to spread around.
>
> Wojtek: Again, anti-distro sentiments are best kept to oneself, and are
> certainly not appropriate on the Squid mailing list. If you must spread
> them, go onto a Linux IRC channel...you'll find plenty of folks eager to
> argue with you about whether Red Hat sucks and looks too much like
Windows.
>
> Edward wrote:
>
> > Ok.
> >
> > What is the best os I should use?
> >
> > Or what do you use?
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Edward Millington
> > (Network Administrator & Senior Technical Support Technician)
> > Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
> > Wildey
> > St. Michael
> > Barbados
> > 1-246-430-7435
> > Fax : 1-246-431-0170
> > www.cariaccess.com
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <wojtek@3miasto.net>
> > To: "Edward" <edward@cariaccess.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 8:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Setting up squid for Satellite.
> >
> >
> >
> >>>To all of us (windows users), there are all the same.
> >>>
> >>this is an exact problem - that many commercial vendors makes
> >>"linux" products looking like windows.
>
> --
> Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
> Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
> http://www.swelltech.com
>
>
Received on Mon May 14 2001 - 04:21:52 MDT