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

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MessageMandrake 8.2 on a CeleronII overclocked to 850MHz, 768MB RAM.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Wood
To: bf1942 at icculus.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 11:14 AM
Subject: RE: [bf1942] Best Version of Linux to run for this test?


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?


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.

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?

do you have the newest update??
----- Original Message -----
From: Nolan, Roger (Calgary)
To: bf1942 at icculus.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: [bf1942] Best Version of Linux to run for this test?

I have seen quite a few notes going back and forth on the stability of
different OS's for this test.
Some say Freebsd and other RedHat 7.x, others say others.

Has anyone been tallying up the score on which is most stable at present?

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.

Cheers
Roger