[cod] CoD WaW Linux Files

[Mark]

I'm looking at a sales pitch, and I understand you are proud of a bit of 
sysadmin work.. but this is besides the point!



evolutioncrazy at gmail.com wrote:
> I'm against windows servers due to performance... it's not a financial 
> problem ;)
> 
> BTW: at the moment i've MANY cod:waw dedicated servers UP and RUNNING on 
> linux boxes ... and honestly they are even working decently ;)
> 
> The problem is that I cannot use it in this way as our custom 
> infrastructure to do installs, start, stops, rcon, customizations and so 
> on is not that easy to be ported into an emulated/xfree environment...
> 
> so actually i've to manually set the servers, manually start, manually 
> stop...
> for the customers that means higher prices because we have to work a lot 
> more and be available all the time the users need a restart or similar 
> things...
> 
> And no... I'm not interested in tcadmin just because activision prefer 
> windows servers :)
> 
> We spent a lot of time and skills building perfect servers, getting the 
> best we can out of linux kernels, low latency, special io&threading 
> schedulers and so on... why shall I offer a crap service when I've an 
> amazing linux infrastructure available? (dedicated in emulation or 
> withing windows LOOOL what's a desktop environment used for??? just to 
> run a dedicated service that do not need to interact in any fancy way??? 
> we want to deliver the best gaming experience possible... maybe not 
> everybody have the same objectives?)
> 
> It has been in this way with all the call of duty games... and I think 
> you should undestand how people start feeling seeing everytime the same 
> thing happening...
>