On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 11:46 -0400, Chalonec Roger wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Would you know if there is a gnome install > utility? I saw webmin but am leery of web front ends. What do you > think? > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Kloiber > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 11:29 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: RE: FC1 Proxy Servers > > > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 11:18 -0400, Chalonec Roger wrote: > > Well I was not sure if these two nomenclature names were actually > > proxy servers. Are there relative advantages and disadvantages > > between the two other than anti-virus? > > Squid is a 'real' proxy server, where Privoxy is an 'objectionable > material' blocker, and something of an anonymizer that happens to sit > between you and the internet like a proxy server, but to my knowledge it > does not cache content for future delivery. It blocks images of certain > sizes commonly used as advertisements, and can filter urls for words and > phrases. Probably stops some pop-over and pop-under ads, too. They could > have added something since I last looked, but I don't think privoxy was > ever designed to block viruses, so I would not count on it doing that. (please don't top-post) IIRC, privoxy has a web front-end of it's own to configure it. Squid does not, but you can enable basic squid functionality for your local network by adding 2 lines to the /etc/squid/squid.conf, so it's not hard at all. -- Chris Kloiber
