Hey Reinier ,
Your scenario doesn't leave you with many options really, from my own
experience i know the most common distro's in ISP's are
SuSE,Redhat,FreeBSD,Solaris(few of them) and some traces of mandrake and
Slackware.
Since your ISP "recommends" you should use squid , they should be able to
deploy a squid-box at the edge or your network and administer it to some
level which eventually would mean that you have the task of learning whatever
distro that they install. I would personally suggest SuSE and also would
suggest that you get on some of the distro's mailing lists and also look up
some documentation on firewall setup's and squid setups, the squid mailing
list is very active though i would suggest taking time reading through the
documentation on there website first.
Lastly i am also assuming that it will be you to administer the linux box
deployed, true ?? If you do have any complications thats what this list is
there for you can always ask.
Hope that helps.
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:21:54 +0300, Reinier Battenberg wrote
> Hi,
>
> The NGO I am working for runs an internet cafe in a poor area in
> Kampala. We can only afford a 32 Kbs connection. A helpfull donor
> has given us a PC to use as a proxy server. Our ISP recommends us to
> use Squid for this (http://www.squid-cache.org/) <http://www.squid-
> cache.org/> As this machine will be connected to the Internet, it
> will also have to run a firewall.
>
> The PC we will be using is a P3 with 192 MB. The current knowledge
> of Linux of the staff is nill.
>
> Taken these facts into consideration, which Linux Distro is most
> suitable for us to use?
>
> rgds,
> Reinier Battenberg
> Program Coordinator
> Banda Community Development Program
>
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