Linux Mandrake 9.1

CommunistWithAGun

<div class="IPBDescription">Be good w/linux or dont read</div> Alright, Im in the process of installing the mandrake distro (9.1) Aaaand, I consider migrating entirely to Linux as long as I am impressed with WINE, will natural selection run stable upon a Linux box? I know that Half-Life DOES, but ns i am questioning

DarkFrost

I am assuming you mean the ns dedicated server, as the client wont work at all (without nifty recoding), but it seems to me as an admin that windows server are better for NS than Linux ones are, they seem to not lag up as much, and when they crash they come back up instantly, Linux works best for all mods, except NS... NS is unique in many ways tho :/ It is stable tho, linux has been running for years on some of the TFC servers, and it has the uptime to show it, i mean they never go pearshaped like windows do and reboot themselfs.

davidsansome

The NS client <b>does</b> run very well under WineX - as do most other half life mods. The only big problem is voice comm. It can work if you have a supported sound card, but you need to set an option in your wine config file:

From the <a href='http://www.transgaming.com/gamefaq.php?gameid=1' target='_blank'>FAQ</a>:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><b>How can I get voice chat to work?</b>
Voice chat in Half Life requires support for input from your sound card at the same time as output to it. This is known as 'Full Duplex' sound.
Some card/driver combinations do not support this cleanly, so it is disabled by default in the WineX config file located in ~/.transgaming/config. To enable it, simple edit the config file and look for the 'FullDuplex' setting. Switch it to 'Y' to enable voice chat. If you experience other sound issues, you may want to leave this feature off, however.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

In reply to what DarkFrost said about the dedicated server, I've found that Linux boxes work great as servers. The reason they don't come back instantly is because there's a timer in the hlds script that waits a few seconds (so that if the server crashes on startup, it doesn't keep trying and trying to restart it). For remote administration, nothing beats SSH on Linux - you can log in to a text console and do practically anything with your server. It sure beats Windows Terminal Services (or whatever) which uses insane amounts of bandwidth.

Anyway, good luck <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->