any recommend me a Server Operating System all welcome as i maybe willing to pay for one as wel.

thanks

J

My dad tried Linux and never got on well with it. Why not use NT if you want to stick with something more regular but ****e (read MS!)

SkinzCinqSporting said:

My dad tried Linux and never got on well with it. Why not use NT if you want to stick with something more regular but ****e (read MS!)

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Isn't 'NT' Extinct?

Trancendental said:

Isn't 'NT' Extinct?

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Not if you can find it BNIB unused?

Server 2003. Small Business Edition is pretty good from my experience providing it's setup correctly to start with.

NT isn't supported by MS now. 2000 will be for a while until they can get governments to stop using it

well whats the server going to be doing? or should i say serving?

games like css, red alert , bf2 and so on and maybe a website if i can sort my router out as its playing up lol

thanks

J

right, i dunno about red alert and BF2 servers but really both should have linux servers so run somthing like Redhat or Mandrake, or even CentOS which is small ish.

if you insist on windows for somthing like that i'd highly recommend running TinyXP, it uses next to no resources so is excellent, if you have a router you wont need to run any extra security really and if its dedicated then it really doesnt matter that much, i hope you have a very good upload on your internet connection though!

thanks for that, was tempted with redhat but thougth id get some info first lol

yeyh our internet connection is fine. i try my hardest to max it but i think when they say unlimited they mean it :slayer:

Id agree linux too, Ubuntu Server aint bad... otherwise Fedora. Mandrake aint bad, but not really as good as the others imo. Suse may be one to watch too...

Luke said:

Id agree linux too, Ubuntu Server aint bad... otherwise Fedora. Mandrake aint bad, but not really as good as the others imo. Suse may be one to watch too...

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sorry luke, yeah fedora is good too i tested it!

bulldog5046 said:

i tested it!

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Geek!

Linux - Fedora

Ultimately Slackware or Gentoo are going to deliver the most dedicated platform for a server as Slack has the no-frills philosophy & Gentoo you install just what you need and nothing else. The problem is that both of those distros need a reasonable knowledge of linux to run effectively. If those are too much to handle for you I'd go to one of the more gui-centric distros such as Fedora, Ubuntu, etc...

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Ultimately Slackware or Gentoo are going to deliver the most dedicated platform for a server as Slack has the no-frills philosophy & Gentoo you install just what you need and nothing else. The problem is that both of those distros need a reasonable knowledge of linux to run effectively. If those are too much to handle for you I'd go to one of the more gui-centric distros such as Fedora, Ubuntu, etc...

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if the poor boys never seen linux i think command line only might be a little complicated, i still hardly get it!

Fedora was the first linux distro i ever tried, its pretty tidy, made a nice webserver

ive got linux, used linux love it but for what i do normaly on my pc i use windows cus of apps i need lol

hmm thanks for the ideas guys, migth just reinstall ubuntu again

J

If you want something familiar - Windows Server 2003. If you think you'll ever need more than one server, the Standard Edition, not Small Business Server.
If you are prepared to learn something new, and want a rock-solid OS, then Free BSD.
It really depends on the OS requirements of your applications though.
H

As long as you're not tied to MS server side applications then go for a rock solid linux install. Very high learning curve but once up you can pretty much forget about it. We're always dumping Windows 200x servers for stable linux variants. Configure all your services, including Samba and most importantly the firewall and you're away. Linux just rocks as a P2P server too