On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:17 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In existing deployments (not trials) content filtering > is being done upstream in the internet connection.
Interesting! I didn't know that - > Content filtering is a very sensitive subject, and any > offering made by OLPC should make it VERY CLEAR > that the country is responsible for the filtering -- both > the initial setup and maintaining the filter. Yup. And also very clear that we believe that filters are quite leaky -- meaning that they will have problems with it, and a plan / process to deal with it. Some local teams may find planning for such situations hard. > Squid has been supported since build 161, long before > Martin started wholesale improvements. Easier to install ? > Right now you have to type one command line: > /etc/sysconfig/olcp-scripts/TURN_SQUID_ON > to permanently enable Squid. This was done simply > because not all installation will want it. Yep - TURN_SQUID_ON works well on the current xs-0.5 dev version. However, I'm not very happy with it due to memory footprint, and considering replacing it with a apache + mod_cache_disk which - from what I've seen - plays to the strengths of linux's disk i/o handling. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
