I have run linux HL servers before and prefer linux as a server system because of it's stability and flexability but my distro of choice is Redhat. [...]This should be more than enough to run Natural Selection but I have heard lots of bad stuff about NS performance/bugs under linux.
This is only MHO: if you can avoid using RH, use a different distro for a NS server. If you plan to run only plain NS on that machine, RH might be fine. But don't plan on adding other addons. RH has the problem that they thought it to be a good idea to create their own version of gcc2, which uses a different incompatible binary format for C++ than the last official gcc2. This also means that the libstdc++ is different on RH than on other distros. And that creates all sorts of spurious problems with mixing C++ applications on a RH system when they have not been specifically compiled on a RH machine. If you plan on compiling everything you use yourself, you're probably fine again.
Florian.
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