Running server on Linux vs WinXP

[narcberry]

bet the farm, go ubuntu.

If you got spare space to partition, you could play around with a dual boot system. if it works for you, remove your windows partition and commit the box to certain awesome.

[thepoetwarrior]

Thanks for the advise, it was helpful. Im pretty confident in my computer skills to get a linux server up and running, how to use it, and setup the eqemu on it. I've currently got 3 desktops already, and the one hosting eqemu has two 250gig HD's with only the first HD being used atm.

Being that I never installed Linux before, I was just curious if it was worth my time for the eqemu server, and if so which type of linux is good to install. Since I used RedHat a bit in college, I might just go with that. I also been hearing a lot about Gentoo so I might look into that too. I did google search a bit and there are a lot of guides, especially for noobs, how to install, use it, etc. So that part I can do myself. Im looking for something basic and stable for the eqemu server.

Thanks again for the help.

[thepoetwarrior]

i run slackware which is the oldest distro currently maintained (well over 15 years and running), but its not as polished and more geared for someone who wants to run linux without all the bells and whistles (aka: i just want a rock solid server, period.)

Thanks, thats what Im looking for, and will try that first. Downloading already the Slackware 12.0 which is 3.62 Gig.

[Bishop4351]

Centos makes a good server OS as does gentoo.

[jimbabwe]

Originally Posted by narcberry

bet the farm, go ubuntu.

If you got spare space to partition, you could play around with a dual boot system. if it works for you, remove your windows partition and commit the box to certain awesome.

I would have to agree. Ubuntu is so easy a monkey could use it. I've installed it on my newest box, and was able to get the emulator working rather easily within a few days with absolutely no linux knowledge whatsoever.

I got the standard version of the OS and if I were to do it over I'd probably get the server version instead as I hear it's a leaner installation.

[Knightly]

I'm jumping into this pretty late, but I run both Linux and Windows Servers.

With Windows XP the resource management is poor for running applications of this nature. There's also a lot of extra services that can cause some resource issues. That said, you can turn most of those off (disable indexing expecially) and close some of that up. As a general rule of thumb, linux will run it better.

However, if you put Linux against a Windows Server running this type of application, the differences dwindle and become mostly personal preference. Headless installations (installations that don't have a Graphical User Interface) will run it the same on both. However, it's much harder to manage a headless windows server than a headless linux server. In my case, I use Gentoo for almost all of my Linux installations any more since I can tailor it to exactly what I need. After you run through the Handbook a couple of times, it is a piece of cake.

All of that said, it again goes back to personal preference if you have access to Windows Server. The security issues, perfomance issues, remote access, etc, are all pretty moot.

[castlusion]

there is a couple links that have debian specific setting debian is easy to down load get what you want from/for server and nothing more and a good community as for stable.. there is a reason there are so many distros based on it in any case when i ran a server that what i used. im setting up on a better machine now so we will see how it goose and ill repost here. im wonderring if i could do a eqset up disc for DEB then people would just have to update files for mysql ....hmmmm a mind is a scary thing .....

[LargoUsagi]

Originally Posted by castlusion

there is a couple links that have debian specific setting debian is easy to down load get what you want from/for server and nothing more and a good community as for stable.. there is a reason there are so many distros based on it in any case when i ran a server that what i used. im setting up on a better machine now so we will see how it goose and ill repost here. im wonderring if i could do a eqset up disc for DEB then people would just have to update files for mysql ....hmmmm a mind is a scary thing .....

hell they could host the install files and apt-get is life if you run a deb Linux box, i have used countless distros for Linux and nothing stands up to DEB + KDE, (sorry gnome is full of fail, and f4 for a console as a default setting is just great) i have ran a Debian server for many things for years and nothing i have used measures up, i would just like to figure out why my zone program isnt working properly but thats another thread all in all for servers

hell i havent shut down my linux server since i had to move it a month ago, and it was on for 3 months without a reset before that, try that one with a windows box
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