[Krelle1911]

Hi AM

I'm thinking of changing my Dedi server from Windows Server 2008 R2 (which it has been running for quite a while now) to Linux.

But I have some questions that I would like to have an answer to first.

1: Will Linux require Hardware Drivers, and where do I get them?
2: Which Distribution of Linux do I have to choose? (I'm thinking of Debian Lenny 2.6 since I've heard a lot of good about it being stable with SRCDS)
3: Which version shall I choose? (amd64armelarmhfi386ia64kfreebsd-i386kfreebsd-amd64mipsmipselpowerpcsparcs390s390xsourcemul ti-arch)
4: Is Linux ready to connect to with puTTy when the installation is done, or how do I make it connectable?
5: How do I create access through FTP? On WinServer I used FileZilla which were very easy.

My servers hardwarespecs are:

Intel Core i5 2500 Asus P8H67 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz 1*500GB WD Caviar Black

[Zephyrus]

1. you should be good to go with that mchine without any issues
2. if you dont know linux choose debian, or even an ubuntu desktop to use with remote desktop, otherwise use centos
3. i386/i686 if you only plan to use it for srcds, otherwise amd64
4. if you rent the machine it will likely be ready to connect, otherwise you will have to install openssh server yourself
5. you have to set up an ftp server yourself or use the built-in sftp of openssh

[Krelle1911]

Originally Posted by Zephyrus 1. you should be good to go with that mchine without any issues 2. if you dont know linux choose debian, or even an ubuntu desktop to use with remote desktop, otherwise use centos 3. i386/i686 if you only plan to use it for srcds, otherwise amd64 4. if you rent the machine it will likely be ready to connect, otherwise you will have to install openssh server yourself 5. you have to set up an ftp server yourself or use the built-in sftp of openssh

Thank you very much!

The server is not rented. I have a 50/50 fiber at home, so I bought the parts and put the server together months ago.

Is i386 or i686 64-bit? My CPU is 64-bit and I have 8 GB ram, so 32-bit is not good is it?

Besides, how can amd64 work when I have an Intel-CPU?

- Sorry if I seem dumb, but I just want to safe half the trouble when changing. :-)

[Zephyrus]

Originally Posted by Krelle1911 Thank you very much! The server is not rented. I have a 50/50 fiber at home, so I bought the parts and put the server together months ago. Is i386 or i686 64-bit? My CPU is 64-bit and I have 8 GB ram, so 32-bit is not good is it? Besides, how can amd64 work when I have an Intel-CPU? - Sorry if I seem dumb, but I just want to safe half the trouble when changing. :-)

I386 and i686 are both 32 bit but they can handle 8gigs of ram with a PAE kernel just fine. Amd64 is the name of the architecture only, Intel uses the architecture designed by AMD. However there is ia64 too but that won't work on your cpu so don't even try

[Martijn79]

Originally Posted by Zephyrus I386 and i686 are both 32 bit but they can handle 8gigs of ram with a PAE kernel just fine. Amd64 is the name of the architecture only, Intel uses the architecture designed by AMD. However there is ia64 too but that won't work on your cpu so don't even try

Can you explain why you would use i386 when you have a machine with 8 GB RAM? That really makes no sense to me at all. All my servers are CentOS 6.4 AMD64 and they run SRCDS fine without any issues as long as you disable SELinux and install the 32-bit libraries required to run the server. It's not like 64-bit Linux can only run 64-bit binaries.

So go for AMD64. Valve even explains it on their website:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/..._Linux_systems

So all you do on debian is apt-get install ia32-libs and of you go.

On CentOS x64 what I do is:

yum install compat-libstdc++-296.i686 (x86 compatibility, required for Steam & L4D).
yum install zlib.i686 (x86 version of zlib, required for Sourcemod).

That's it! I would recommend CentOS 64-bit myself btw.

[Zephyrus]

Originally Posted by Martijn79 Can you explain why you would use i386 when you have a machine with 8 GB RAM? That really makes no sense to me at all. All my servers are CentOS 6.4 AMD64 and they run SRCDS fine without any issues as long as you disable SELinux and install the 32-bit libraries required to run the server. It's not like 64-bit Linux can only run 64-bit binaries. So go for AMD64. Valve even explains it on their website: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/..._Linux_systems So all you do on debian is apt-get install ia32-libs and of you go. On CentOS x64 what I do is: yum install compat-libstdc++-296.i686 (x86 compatibility, required for Steam & L4D). yum install zlib.i686 (x86 version of zlib, required for Sourcemod). That's it! I would recommend CentOS 64-bit myself btw.

first of all, if you disable selinux then just go and use debian. i didnt read further cause at the point where you told him to disable selinux you already showed me you have no idea why you are using centos in the first place. also, you want to use 32 bit because if you run 32 bit applications exclusively you dont use 64 bit because it uses more ram and more space on disk. however i told him if he would install other stuff like apache and mysql then he should use 64 bit...

[Krelle1911]

The server is going to be used to 2 things:
1: Srcds
2: Hosting our TeamSpeak 3 server. So which version would you go with?

[YamiKaitou]

i386 and i686 are both x86 architectures. amd64 is one of the names for 64-bit, another is x86_64

[Pitbull3]

Id recommend CentOS 6.4, seems to be one of the more stable linux versions out there for valve related gaming servers.

Also its one of the most widely used.

[hamilton5]

this is a loaded thread... I want in.. Debian glhf.

http://distrowatch.com
http://linuxfromscratch.org/