So, most of you get it to work with Debian? I need to know before making a big mistak
 

Hey,
I have hard that most of you use this with Debian. I am a SuSE / RedHat (yeah, Fedora too) fan.

Now, I have a server box running in the basement, I just unplugged it and am about to perform a network install of Debian.

I have heard this works, I am going to try.

Please tell me what you think.

Thanks.

Im not much for meaty distros. A server os should only contain the needed apps to run and maintain the server. Dont get me wrong I like Debian, Fedora, and Suse as desktops but not servers.

For server I use a complete text based distro:

http://www.trustix.org/

In my opinion it is by far more secure and stable. Its main focus is on security and stability. Text is less strain on a server then when you load a gui.

Pretty much any distro will work. Some need tweaking to get it to run properly.

I chose trustix not only for its security, and stability, but also for its small size.

Ive been running my eqemu server on a solid state flash disk, extremely fast in data I/O. Some links below:

http://www.bitmicro.com/
http://www.m-systems.com/

alittle costly depending on what you go with gb wise but very worth the I/O speed with no bottlenecks. I only mention the SSFD's because I planned out the size of the os and all necessary eqemu space, to fit on a drive with enough space left over due to the small size of trustix.

Just curious if anyone else running pure text based linux servers?

...or am I that geeky hehe.

gentoo is popular.. you can install as much or as little as you want.. peq runs on gentoo.. i know doodman uses it as well.. not sure if FNW has converted from bsd or not.

I'm debian user, and i don't have many problems with eqemu.

Each problem that I had was especially has a package which I had forgotten to install (thank you for your patience, fathernitwit ;) )

I use debian because :
1- this distrib is popular
2- the stable version (SARGE now) is very good for easy (I'm not a pro) make server with stability and security.
3- I can use Kde/Gnome (For firefox) even if I prefer to type lines of orders when I configure EQEMU.
4- I never crash a debian install but i think we can't say that about many distrib.

Hope that you help.

I use Slackware. It's old, robust, reliable. Never had an issue with it. At work i stoped to count but we got at least 12 or 15 slackware platforms. We prefer it to debian because it's less popular and less targeted by hackers. Avoid redhat/mandrake for a computer that shouldn't be used as a client machine.

Works on Debian testing for me