[bf1942] Best Version of Linux to run for this test?

[Kevin J. Anderson]

Gentoo 1.4_rc2 w/ athlon 1.2TB 768Ram u160 18gig

No noticeable problems currently.   GCC 3.1 march=athlon

->-----Original Message-----
->From: Joshua Krzych [mailto:wdttardfarmer at hotmail.com]
->Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 11:51 AM
->To: bf1942 at icculus.org
->Subject: Re: [bf1942] Best Version of Linux to run for this test?
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->Anybody have any luck with Debian?
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->>From: "sittnduck" <sittnduck at bioclan.com>
->>Reply-To: bf1942 at icculus.org
->>To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
->>Subject: Re: [bf1942] Best Version of Linux to run for this test?
->>Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:21:39 -0600
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->>MessageI am running RH8, the box is a an athlon 1.2 with 512mb, on a T3
->>with a choke of 1024/1024. No crashes, lag on all maps after several
->>minutes, or players, it makes no difference which, cpu usage
->climbs to 80%
->>with more than 3 player, in water maps or land based. 4 windows servers
->>with roughly the same specs, no issues.
->>   ----- Original Message -----
->>   From: Bill Wood
->>   To: bf1942 at icculus.org
->>   Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 10:14 AM
->>   Subject: RE: [bf1942] Best Version of Linux to run for this test?
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->>   Maybe we could get a consensus of Linux distro's running the server
->>without issues in this thread?
->>     -----Original Message-----
->>     From: Nolan, Roger (Calgary) [mailto:Roger_Nolan at nexeninc.com]
->>     Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 9:57 AM
->>     To: bf1942 at icculus.org
->>     Subject: RE: [bf1942] Best Version of Linux to run for this test?
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->>     No I don't, I was thinking that if I have to update I might as well
->>get a distribution that works well with BF1942, as this is the
->main reason
->>for using Linux. I was thinking of Mandrake but I did not see many folks
->>running it here on this test.
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->>
->>     Roger
->>
->>
->>
->>     -----Original Message-----
->>     From: Alex [mailto:santahomer at web.de]
->>     Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 8:29 AM
->>     To: bf1942 at icculus.org
->>     Subject: Re: [bf1942] Best Version of Linux to run for this test?
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->>     do you have the newest update??
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->>       ----- Original Message -----
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->>       From: Nolan, Roger (Calgary)
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->>       To: bf1942 at icculus.org
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->>       Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 4:28 PM
->>
->>       Subject: [bf1942] Best Version of Linux to run for this test?
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->>       I have seen quite a few notes going back and forth on the
->stability
->>of different OS's for this test.
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->>       Some say Freebsd and other RedHat 7.x, others say others.
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->>       Has anyone been tallying up the score on which is most stable at
->>present?
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->>       I use TurboLinux 6.0 (came free with a hardware device of
->some sort
->>or another) and it seems to crash every map change. I am not around the
->>server to check it frequently but when I do it needs to be run again.
->>Thinking about loading something newer, and would like help on what to
->>choose.
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->>
->>       Cheers
->>
->>       Roger
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