DigitalN. Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 i am thinking of getting a new PC pretty soon and i was gonna install linux on the older one for a bit of gaming. or i will do it for file serving but i have no idea yet. what is the best one for both? or, what is the most stable linux distro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 dont install linux for gaming but for other stuff its great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordHatrus Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 ditto with Rudy. All linux distros are ABSOLUTELY stable. (unless they say, "pre-pre-alpha super experimental uber-unstable distro version") Not like M$ Windows. File serving is good on pretty much all linux distros, maybe even better to have a small distro, sticking Apache server software on it, and bingo, you're done. (Just set up a firewall and stuff... duh...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 You can get a few decent games for Linux. America's Army (although I don't know if that's actually any good), Emeny Territory, and most of the ID games are available for Linux as far as I'm aware. I play Quake III Arena, and Q3 Urban Terror in Linux, and the games play much better than they do in Windows. My Linux machine is an Athlon XP 2400+, with 1.2GB of RAM and a Geforce 4 ti4200 and it's about 10fps faster than my friend's Athlon XP 3000+ with the same RAM and a Geforce FX 5600 running Windows XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danrarbc Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 Well, your friend is kinda handicaped. The GFFX :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeWolf324 Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 if ur installling linux for games, heres my favorite little gem: www.happypenguin.org BEST linux game site ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splatnix Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Not to mention that Starcraft works under Linux, Neverwinter Nights has a Linux client, and many other games exist out there. Check out linuxgames.com or happypenguin.org, and to buy Linux-compatible games, check out tuxgames.com. These are probably your most ideal starting points to find out what works, and doesn't work. You might also want to hit up eBay or other "used" venues for games ported by Loki (who is now out of business). I own Quake III Arena and Railroad Tycoon II for Linux from them, and Q3A runs bazillions times faster on the same machine than the Windows version did - and that was 3 years ago! While there's a lot of controversy over it from the community, if you really want to game on Linux, you might want to look into WineX from TransGaming. I've successfully run Half-Life, Baldur's Gate I and II, Diablo II, and a friend managed, with some difficulty albeit, to get Mechwarrior 4 running. A full list of the games TransGaming supports is listed here. Edit: BEST linux game site ever. I'll 2nd that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeWolf324 Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 also MDK is a good distro (Mandrake) www.mandrakelinux.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splatnix Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Distro wise, wouldn't they all the same as far as gaming goes? If you've gotten 3D XFree support enabled, OpenGL and all that good stuff, and your preferred input is supported, and your overhead isn't a lot... I don't think it matters one way or another which distro you run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeWolf324 Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 well im thinking ease-of-use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewy Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 i have not tried but my guess would be gentoo as they even make Gentoo live CD GAMES http://www.gentoo-games.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argi Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 I think gentoo is the best for general use. It's arguably the fast distro compared to redhat or mndrke and others. Just horrible RAID-0 support. :cry: Windows still remains the OS for games for compatability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splatnix Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 well im thinking ease-of-use Point. dacoolness15566, if you're extremely new to Linux, then Mandrake (as mentioned previously), Fedora Core, or SuSE are good choices. If you're comfortable, you might want to look into Slackware, Debian, or Gentoo (as mentioned previously). All in all, just make sure the hardware in your machine is supported and then follow the Install instructions of whatever distro you choose. In the end, it's all the same, whether it's gaming, file sharing, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 i miss loki :( but icculus.org that guy is coming along with his ports for games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splatnix Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Loki was good. But I think it was ahead of it's time - like Apple with the Newton PDA. First to the scene and tragically died. It was great - but there just wasn't enough support at the time. Not to mention the dot-bomb affect on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplyPotatoes Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 gentoo - it lets you do whatever you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 gentoo - it lets you do whatever you want. That's the best description of Gentoo I've ever heard. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalN. Posted January 1, 2004 Author Share Posted January 1, 2004 okie doki guys. im going with mandrake since im such a n00b at linux. THANKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeWolf324 Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 nice choice...i have run RH8 and 9, MDK 9.1 and 9.2 and gentoo 1.4 in my time....gentoo was really nice i must say, but so much matienence at first...after a while it became less and less mantience needing...but i like my stuff to run fast cuz im my day to day and job environment things need to work...fast. still tho if gentoo gets stronger with emerge...(too many compile errors when i used it)...i would surely use it again...i hope the new gentoo2004 or whatever its called is really good..i await news.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 Go with Gentoo. You might be a 'n00b' but a three year old could follow Gentoo's installation instructions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalN. Posted January 1, 2004 Author Share Posted January 1, 2004 uh, nah i think i wil go with mandrke. but does ANYONE know a FAST place to get it from? i dont consider 30-50kbps fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeWolf324 Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 there are plenty of good mirrors...just surf around... agreed that gentoo is a good way to go...but really MDK is the smartest choice for productivity in general...i have not used any OS that i have been that productive in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalN. Posted January 1, 2004 Author Share Posted January 1, 2004 can you find a fast one for me please? it is getting late, and i have to go to bed plus i have to get up uber early in the morning to go away for a day. i want to downlaod these while im gone but i dont want it to take 15 hours each to complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splatnix Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 (edited) Even in the US, I've found servers in France, Ireland, and Japan to generally be fastest. Try these: - ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/iso/ - ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake/iso/ Edited January 1, 2004 by splatnix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan4Ever Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 about the hardware thing... how could anybody knows if my actual hardware is supported? im especially worried about my Radeon 7200 videocard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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