Re: [squid-users] Moving squid from Solaris to Linux

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Graham Butler <g.butler_at_hud.ac.uk> wrote:
> We are currently looking at replacing our Solaris boxes with a flavour of Linux to run squid with a focus on Red Hat and Ubuntu. I am trying to collect some evidence to which OS is being used to run squid and why, before we make a decision. Could you please respond by sending me, or the list, information on which OS you are using to run squid and any information on why your decided to run it on that particular platform.
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> I am also asking other list for similar information on BIND, Exim, Apache, etc.......
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> Many thanks for any information you may send me.
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I answer this question more based on what you know than what it "runs
best on"; from what I've seen, the OS is of secondary importance to
the Squid version and tuning.

Personally, RHEL or CentOS have worked very well for me when I was
running large (1m users) Squid farms, but I have seen Squid run on
large clusters with Debian, SuSE, etc. But I was already familiar
with RHEL / CentOS going back some years.

If your UNIX / Linux admin teams already prefer another distro,
probably your best bet is to stick with what they know already.

-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert_at_gmail.com