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its on windows XP forgot to add that
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Debian doesnt have GUI and it runs good. But try using the search button, you never know what could turn up.
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I've never seen any real comparisions of srcds performance between XP and Linux when I was looking for the same answer a while back. There are a number of performance benchmarks between various Linux flavors and Windows for application performance like MySQL, Oracle, and the networking stack.
In general, the advantage Linux has (not just for srcds but for any network application server) is that the kernel is completely customizable. You can compile it yourself to optimize performance. If you're not into kernel hacking, then Linux's advantage becomes strictly one of cost. If you aren't familiar with Unix there's no real advantage to teaching yourself Unix system administration just to run srcds, since it runs just fine under Windows.
You can modify the linux kernel to optimize network performance, but you can also tweak XP's "Quality of Service" parameters just the same, and it's probably easier to do under XP. Bandwidth is your real limitation--if you can only get 8 under XP, you may be able to tweak QoS and get up to 10 but you really won't do better than that even with a completely recompiled linux kernel.
So what did I chose? Trick question! Neither! :-) I run my srcds server under Solaris. It's free, it's almost completely crash-proof, and its even more customizable than Linux.
The "Tutorials" Forums on this website have guides for Linux & Windows servers. I wrote one for Solaris, too. They're all very detailed. Read them and see which is right for you. Ubuntu is by far the simplest and easiest Linux to begin with if you want to try one out. Just about every Linux release, and even Solaris, have various "Live CDs" you can boot from and try out without messing up your computer. It's a good way to try a bunch and see which one you like best.
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With that litle ram you gain a lot running Linux.
"the box said 'requires windows xp or better'. so i installed linux"
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