The only lesson for your staff is to learn to use these few basic commands, halt, reboot, ping,ps and tail and call the ISP for more help.Which might be done once a month!
Rgrds
Ronny
Ziggy David Lubowa wrote:
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 wroteHi, 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 -- Personal Website: http://www.simama.net Stichting Kidogo: http://www.kidogo.org This Mail is best viewed with Thunderbird. Get It! <http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/>Get Firefox! <http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=4335&t=61>Regards David Ziggy Lubowa _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
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