[gull] choice of distribution

[magnus]

Hello,

When you say game server you mean the machine to which all client games connects in
order to play with other clients over the LAN or internet?

If yes, I would say that ANY distribution would fit for creating a game server as
long as the etherenet network card is usable and the server software compiles on it
(even damn small linux :-) ).
In this case your needs are:
- a kernel with lots of network drivers,
- the binaries of the game server
- X (really if needed by the server)
- the needed (shared) libs to make all of the above run.
I see an issue with network config with "out-of-the-box" features. An idea would be
to have this machine acting as the dhcp server also so that client machines can
configure their network stuff dynamically.

If no, are you looking for a machine to play games on?

have a nice day,

Magnus

l'illustre Thierry de Coulon a dit un jour,
> On Thursday, 30 June 2005 20.02, maitre wrote:
>> Tortue wrote:
>> > Hello. I would like to mount a live CD of a linux distribution with a
>> > game server. I only need the strict necessary to run the game server
>> > and the hardware recognition (drivers). I would greatly appreciate
>> > some help with the choice of the distribution, as I am brend new to
>> > linux. I thought about the Debian distrib, as it seems to be the most
>> > "complete" one, but I am a newbie... ;-) Could you help me ? Thanks !
>> >
>> > A. Olivier
>
> You might take a look to some Debian-based distribution like Mepis and
> Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
> I have been running some games on Mepis (X-plane and most if the FPS based on
> ID software's engines: Quake(s), RTCW, SOF and Doom 3. Haven't tried a game
> server though and I run them from the hard disk.
>
> Thierry
>
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