Re: [squid-users] Gates Grant Computers and Squid

From: Robert Collins <robert.collins@dont-contact.us>
Date: 28 Aug 2001 17:01:29 +1000

On 27 Aug 2001 14:59:54 -0400, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> The Bill & Melinda Gates foundations has been giving computers to many
> public libraries in the US. As part of their bequest, they give what
> they are calling a "content server"; it is an NT4.0 Server set up to
> provide quite a few services (web server, file server, etc) but not to
> provide individual users with accounts.
>
> I was wondering if anyone has put Squid on such a Gates Foundation
> content server. (Please forgive me if I misssed a previous post to
> the list - just got back from vaction) I have not tried to install any
> NT version of Squid on anything yet. There is no reason not to put Squid on,
> unless the NT version has major problems. These machines have about 10G
> of free space. I'm a little bit surprised they didn't simply provide
> the MS proxy server as part of the package, but they didn't.

I hear the redhat|debian|mandrake|openBSD|freeBSD|netBSD upgrades are
all very cheap, and will work on the donated hardware, and include web
server, file server etc.

Just my 2c.

Rob
Received on Tue Aug 28 2001 - 01:14:41 MDT

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