> > generally, are there any tips anyone can advise
> > regarding the best i can get out of my
> > hardware/software configuration..?.. it's been a while
> > since i've built an enterprise squid box, and i want
> > to do it right the first time... pretty much excited
> > and looking forward to it..
>
> SUSE 8.2 is definitely _not_ the OS of choice for running a server in a
> corporate environment.
OTOH, it is stable & if you don't want support from SuSE, its fine.
> If you need any support for this machine, you should
> run SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 (which is based on SUSE LINUX 8.1). Only
> for this OS SUSE LINUX will provide any support and maintenance for more
> than about two years (which is the normal lifetime for the SUSE LINUX 8.x,
> 9.x). SLES 8 is supported for at least five years from General Availability
> of the product (which means support and maintenance will be available until
> 2007).
I have to say this looks like a blatant commercial for the more expensive
SLES, where the cheaper product (I'd use 9.0) is fine. I have corporate
servers running every release of SuSE Linux from 7.0 onwards - and have used
5.3 (IIRC) for the same.
If this box will run Squid and Squid only then I'd be looking into one of the more minimal distributions such as Debian. You don't need most of the 'junk' that distro's like Suse will install by default as most of the services etc that will be running by default on distro's like Suse will only serve to slow things down.
hth
Regards,
Chris
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