Re: [squid-users] Squid : better on Debian or Ubunto server ?

My choise is among Ubuntu server and Debian , without GUI.
So for my purpose is same thing in both cases ?!

my purpose is having: squid proxy + relay sendmail

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob van der Putten" <rob_at_sput.nl>
To: <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid : better on Debian or Ubunto server ?

> Hi there
>
>
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>
>> The big difference between Debian and Ubuntu is the X server/kde/gnome
>> GUI interface. Once you eliminate that you may as well flip a coin to
>> choose.
>
> You can choose the desktop / window manager.
> Ubuntu Gnome
> Kubuntu KDE
> Xubuntu Xfce
>
> AFAIK Ubuntu is a mix of Debian Testing, Unstable and Experimental with a
> few added non Debian packages.
> On Debian you can do something similar by installing testing during freeze
> and then create a few backports from unstable and experimental.
>
> Debian Stable / Lenny provides Squid 2.7 and 3.0 (section web).
> If you want 3.1 you have to compile it yourself;
> Install gcc and libldap2-dev, libpam0g-dev, libdb-dev, sharutils, dpatch
> (>= 2.0.9), cdbs, libsasl2-dev, debhelper (>=5), libcppunit-dev.
> And download the source of course;
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/
>
> The file
> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.STABLE8.orig.tar.gz
> lists the differences between the Debian and the original version of Squid
> 3.0. It's mainly added copyright notices and a change in the install
> procedure. I didn't apply the patch (which is for 3.0), but used configure
> options instead. I could' get all the configure options to work though.
> Nor did I succeed in telling it not to install libexec in
> /usr/local/squid/libexec/
> It also links libdl instead of librt. I don't know why.
> It does work though.
>
>
> Regards,
> Rob
>
Received on Sat Apr 11 2009 - 13:34:33 MDT