On Apr 11, 2005 2:19 PM, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Propel's solution is proprietary and it also does things like ad > blocking via regexp (although that's nothing that dansguardian can't > do). it's also helped by the huge local cache that the Propel client > uses. actually the Propel Web Acceleration Server or PWAS/PAS uses a > variety of open-source components such as squid and Python (the > server-side proxy is actually a Python application). > > all in all, nothing magical, but you have to see it to believe it. i > mean, for a long time i didn't care about these so-called dialup > accelerators, but for a home dialup it literally means the difference > between "unacceptable" and "acceptable" browsing experience.
Sounds like a success story of creating a commercial product from FOSS., and a large-scale Python app as well. Perhaps EDGE services (PLDT WeRoam so far) could also benefit from this. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
