[squid-users] Best OS for latest squid

[Douglas Davenport]

Thanks! What is the recommendation on packages vs building from source?

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:

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> On 5/10/2014 4:49 p.m., Douglas Davenport wrote:
> > I'm starting from scratch with an AWS based squid setup, I would
> > like to be able stay up to date with the latest squid releases to
> > have all the sslbump fixes. Can someone suggest what is best to
> > use, Centos 6, Ubuntu 14 or another distro? I see a lot of the
> > binary releases lag behind, does squid build easily on a particular
> > platform? Sorry if this question has been covered, I searched but
> > only found discussion about hardware specs. Thanks!
> >
>
> We currently do regular integration testing with successful results on
> Debian Sid, Ubuntu Precise & Saucy & Trusty, CentOS 6 & 7, FreeBSD 9.1
> & 10, OpenBSD 5.4, Fedora 19.
>
> Using GCC, clang, and ICC compilers where available.
>
> Other OS usually have good results as well with the exception of
> Windows and MacOS where SMP functionality used by Squid is missing or
> broken.
>
> FWIW: Old OS releases with older compilers generally work best with
> old Squid releases with matching level of compiler support. Not that
> such a situation is desirabe for use in todays Internet.
>
> NOTE: For tracking latest Squid in future you will want GCC 4.9+ or
> clang 3.4+ compilers. The Squid-3.4+ series build best performance
> optimizations with them and 3.6 series about to begin development will
> probably require C++11 at some point soon.
>
> Amos
>
> PS. personally I am a Debian "fanboi", with Ubuntu a close second.
> That comes down to package management tools and their multi-arch
> support though.
>
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