What is a good Linux OS for dedicated game hosting?
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Another question you might ask is which distribution are you more comfortable with. For instance RedHat users mainly use "yum" to update their computers where as Debian users mainly use a tool called "dselect". The end is the same, but the methods are very different.
What do I do? I am slowly moving from RedHat to Debian. Why? Because RedHat, like Microsoft, comes out with major updates. One should be able to update from, say Fedora 8 to Fedora 9, but it is almost always better to start over - like in going from Windows Vista to Windows 7. Debian, on the other hand, continuously up dates its self. That is, they don't make major changes, only incremental ones. BTW, there are two Debian distributions referred to as Stable and Unstable. If you are interested in the newest hardware graphics accelerated this and that - I would go with unstable. Don't worry, the joke is that Debian unstable is more stable then other supposedly stable distributions.
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While that is amazingly well worded and informative, he's looking for game serving, not playing.
I say take this information and ignore most of the graphics stuff. you get a vote from me.
I used fedora for quite a while(cs:s servers) as it was easy to set up and well documented.
BTW, if all you are interested in is a MAME box - well, about 90% of the ROM images MAME can work with are designed to run on processors from the 80's and 90's. That is, they are sloooow. So no real need for HW graphics acceleration for most gaming. If you are going with Linux then XMAME is what you want.