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DopeFish
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Old 10-19-2004 , 08:22  
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I'd bet that not more than a third of the people here run their own servers. Most just rent a "server" from a game service provider -> and most GSPs only give their customers a webinterface and maybe ftp access. And the ones who actually rent a "real" server normally just use the OS/distribution that came preinstalled because they don't know (or can't) install a new distribution on the physical machine remotely.

So I guess you're right ;) there probably really are only a handful of people here who actually have extensive knowledge in the various distributions and optimizing kernel and network settings.

Comparing the stuff I have tried out: my servers ran best on a 2.6 kernel (or 2.4 with low latency and preemtive patches), running on a distribution based off glibc 2.2
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Old 10-19-2004 , 11:07  
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Good to know. Thanks
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Old 10-20-2004 , 01:23  
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I wont ever run RedHat again due to them selling thier software now. (Yea you can get fedora)

That company is pushing the limits as far as legality goes I think. Linux is free. They say they are charging for 'technical support' and stuff. Bull shit. There is an answer to every linux question ever on various forums.
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Old 10-20-2004 , 02:11  
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What? Are you an idiot?

The entire capitalist portion of the GPL is that you can sell support. It in fact is the axiom of open source software companies, that you can provide better support in a free market for a product. The ideas are shared, the quality of service is not a lock-in.

RedHat is an example of why Linux succeeded. The company sells a supported version of an unsupported product and contributes their changes back into the mainstream. Have you ever considered what RedHat has done for the linux kernel?
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Old 10-20-2004 , 04:22  
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No need to get into an arguement over this thread. But basically redhat has always charged for their software just no one ever really payed attention because unless you were a corporate user you just went and downloaded the free version and never payed it second thought. Now they have just changed that a little. Now their free version just has a different name then their pay version. I'm not a big redhat fan never have been but they have done a lot for the linux community just like a few other flavors have.
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Old 10-21-2004 , 04:36  
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My linux box runs Suse, the server is in Germany and I'm in the UK, so everything must be done via SSH / FTP, the installation and updates were done by the box provider and then anything I want to run is installed remotely via SSH...

I know little to nothing about linux TBH, but running HLDS is not difficult and the 'Linux' end appears to be a stable release.

So basically all I can tell you is the box I use is good and uses Suse, so if thats any help to anyone great ;)

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Old 10-26-2004 , 23:01  
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Just wanted to point out, the FreeBSD is part of the BSD family. Not the Linux family..
I'd run with SlackWare, It's not there but its stable and secure on default.
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