OK. Thanks Chris. I'll give your suggestions a go! I guess I'll go for CentOS or Ubuntu and try the compilations on them. Cheers, DT --- On Wed, 4/1/09, Chris Robertson <crobertson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Chris Robertson <crobertson@xxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Large-scale Reverse Proxy for serving images FAST > To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Received: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 12:25 PM > David Tosoff wrote: > > Thanks Chris & Amos for your comments thus far. > > > > I've finally located a machine I can place this > "Memory-only" squid on. I've got a 32GB, AMD > 64-bit, blah blah. > > > > Anyway, since I'm a bit of a linux n00b, I was > asking the OS question even after having read the wiki and > postings about this topic. For me, the OS i use doesn't > matter from a comfortability/familiarity standpoint, as > it's all fairly new to me anyway. The only requirements > are that it's 64-bit and will work with my 32GB of RAM. > > > > I was thinking of using fedora, centOS, or ubuntu > 64-bit editions. What do you think will be the easiest OS to > compile & run a 64-bit version of Squid on? > > > > Fedora runs on a 6 month release cycle with support for the > current + last release(1). Perhaps a poor choice for a > server. CentOS is a clone of RHEL, which has a seven year, > multi-phased support cycle(2). The first four years > include hardware upgrades with bug fixes and security > patches. The fifth year has limited new hardware support, > bug fixes and security patches. The last two years are > exclusively bug fixes and security patches. Ubuntu Long > Term Support version (LTS) offers up a 5 year support cycle > with "Seamless upgrade from one LTS to the > other"(3,4). > > > That leads me to my next question... How DO I compile > or get a binary of 64-bit squid 3.0 stable13? The few source > and binaries i've seen don't differentiate between > 32 & 64. > > The source won't differentiate (as the same code can be > compiled into a 32 or 64 bit binary), but binaries should. > Usually, the default is 32 bit, with special marking for 64 > bit binaries. > > > I've dowmloaded the 3.0 Stable13 tar.gz, but I > have no idea how to go about compiling it to run as 64-bit. > > > > The simplest method is to compile it on the system it's > intended to run on using the distribution supplied tools. > > > Once I know this, I think i'll be all set. > > > > Any help would be very much appreciated. > > > > Thanks all!! > > > > David > > > > Chris > > 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle > 2. http://markmail.org/message/vi2xbxms6tcmm3cd > 3. > http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/benefits/lifecycle > 4. http://www.ubuntu.com/products/ubuntu/release-cycle __________________________________________________________________ Instant Messaging, free SMS, sharing photos and more... Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger at http://ca.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/
