I am very happy to release the new RPM for CentOS.
This release contains only the bug-fixes and 0 patches.
Last time I wrote about *rock* cache_dir.
This time I would like to introduce another aspect to implementing any
Linux based system which is not a squid only topic.
Any computing system does one thing and only one thing *computing*!
We take any OS and we implement a system that serves clients all over
the world.
To build and design each system there are requirements which some
developer or some engineers needs to think first.
Only after thinking about the system design more or less which is not
the matter, we do testing and lots of other things.
All the above is just to make sure that the implemented system will run
for a very long time and many times even without interruption.
Taking a CentOS for example will require lot's of hearts and brains to
just install it.
There are systems out-there that even CentOS 3 is still running on them.
Tweaking an OS for my understanding is not such a simple task and there
are many engineers that do that for living each and every day.
A proxy system is one of the big examples that requires lot's of heart
to think about the users and the admins of each and every related system.
A web service needs the caching system to allow the heavy duty CPU of
the more complex computations to be done with all the needed resources.
When running a big computation system there is a need to take in account
that each TCP connection requires resources.
Squid unleash the basic analyzing of the network traffic and network
resources.
This feature allows more then just research but also to even look at the
network traffic which usually is kind of "unseen".
While analyzing a network there is a need for much more then just be
*careful* but also be very sensitive.
The linux OS gives to all these great engineers developers and
professionals a tool to unleash their abilities to push the world one
step forward from the point it was before.
Like in any step of any birth it takes lots of powers and still any kid
in the world needs a lot of help in his steps forward.
like in couple times in the past I have a recommendation for a video.
This time it's less of a direct computer related one but rather an
animation "Ergo Proxy".
This series is one of the amazing I have seen and which have introduced
me to the "proxy" word\world.
Like some OS and squid is not for anyone this series is not recommended
for *anyone*.
I have not seen rating of this series but my opinion is that there is a
need to be at-least 18 years old to watch it.
* Feel free to respond and ask if you have something in mind.
The RPMS at:
http://www1.ngtech.co.il/rpm/centos/6/x86_64/
The package includes 3 RPMs one for the squid core and helpers, the
other is for debugging and the third is the start-up script.
http://www1.ngtech.co.il/rpm/centos/6/x86_64/squid-3.4.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
http://www1.ngtech.co.il/rpm/centos/6/x86_64/squid-sysvinit-3.4.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
http://www1.ngtech.co.il/rpm/centos/6/x86_64/squid-debuginfo-3.4.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
To Each and everyone of them there is an *asc* file which contains PGP and
MD5 SHA1 SHA2 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 hashes.
I also released the SRPM which is very simple at:
http://www1.ngtech.co.il/rpm/centos/6/x86_64/SRPM/squid-3.4.2-1.el6.src.rpm
* I did not managed to release the 3.HEAD release yet.
* The I686 build it still takes time but I have a machine which is
pretty much the first step.
Eliezer
