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 > > -- > The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a > capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the > safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? > Frank Zappa > _______________________________________________ > gull mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alphanet.ch/mailman/listinfo/gull > > -- Magnus est un être humain à qui tu peux envoyer des emails. _______________________________________________ gull mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alphanet.ch/mailman/listinfo/gull
