An "online desktop" for GNOME? [LWN.net]

An "online desktop" for GNOME?

Posted Jul 26, 2007 16:12 UTC (Thu) by walters (subscriber, #7396)
In reply to: An "online desktop" for GNOME? by nix
Parent article: An "online desktop" for GNOME?

I considered that, but the problem is that no major distribution I know of ships a caching HTTP proxy setup. So I'd have to roll my own, or expect distributions to do it? There is nothing truly technically hard about that, but it opens up a big can of worms by trying to say Depends: correctly-configured-desktop-http-proxy.

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An "online desktop" for GNOME?

Posted Jul 26, 2007 22:26 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, none of them ship with one set up by *default*, but all that I know
of have packages for caching proxies. Of course there are policy decisions
in installing one: how much space do you want it to eat and how long
should cached pages be kept for, for starters.