I think the general opinion has been that goldsource and source have slightly better performance on Windows. That being said, I'm getting significant return on my "free" investment in Debian boxes.
Gentoo is nice, but to me all the work in customizing the kernel and reading/learning about the kernel... It's good to do when you want to learn about Linux, but I want my box to run without issue all the time, and Gentoo just requires you to know "too much" about what you're doing, IMO. I'd rather just stand the kernel up and move on. The little extra performance I'm going to squeeze out with Gentoo isn't worth my time (especially since game servers just cost me money to run!) On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Collin Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the replies guys, i have been using centos 5.x for past 2 years > but getting tired of segmentation faults. I have used gentoo before on a box > and have a small amount of experience with it. Im thinking about officially > moving to gentoo. Also whats your opinions on using windows if you are > specifically running gldsrc games such as cs1.6? From what I have heard its > better optimized for windows and therefore gives better performance? > > > > ________________________________ > From: Ook <[email protected]> > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 3:45:37 PM > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] OS > > Slackware 13.37 64 bit with the 3.3.7 kernel. Rock solid. Gets the job done. > Not really for the linux newbies, as it doesn't do much hand-holding. > Slackware is a basic distro without a lot of gui bells and whistles. I used > to use Windows 2000, but got tired of the regular BSODs everytime I passed > gas or a flock of cosmic rays blew by. Replaced Win2000 with linux, hasn't > gone down once. Even the X server is surprisingly stable, the current version > of xfce is lean and bloat free and more important, very stable. > > I run xfce because I use bpftp for my ftp server, and it is a windows > program. Works great via wine. Everything else I've converted from their > Windows equivalents to native linux apps. 3GB on the box, two OP4 servers, > one minecraft server, one ftp server via wine, apache, noip, and it's > currently using 1.5GB and 5% cpu (older Phenom four core cpu, one of the > slower ones). > > > > On 07/08/2012 07:12 PM, Collin Howard wrote: >> Is Gentoo a good distro for goldsrc HLDS? What distro's do you server ops >> use and recommend? I'm not looking for a OS battle here. Just a simple >> answer with a small explanation why. :) >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
