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As a ex-Windows Server user, I wanted to know if people have used GUI on their Linux box to administer their game servers.
I hear one of the reasons for not going with Windows is because of its GUI.
I find it must easier to manage files with a user interface. Though I can still do it with console. Do any of you guys use a UI? if so would it affect the performance of the box and game servers by much?
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I would not use a GUI for a *nix server because of performance. However, you might be able to just boot to the GUI when you need to use it... I'm not a Linux Expert...
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If RAM is an issue, no GUI of course uses less memory.
Otherwise, the performance difference in Linux isn't noticeable in my opinion.
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I started out using gui, not worth it at all. If you are going to use linux make sure you know how to use command line pretty good. Stick with that, if you're going to use gui I'd just stick with windows as you know how to do everything in windows. Reason I say nay to gui is once you use it you will not use the command line much at all and it will take a long time to learn it.
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I have seen some guys around my work used console guis for file management, like old ms-dos. They aren't as spectactular as a x windows gui, but they do make life a bit simpler and you don't need to remember so many cryptic commands.
I couldn't tell you what it's called, but I know it's out there.
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For some reason, when xorg runs, my server gets much better performance than with a plain terminal (970 fps instead of 900). Why could that be?
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You probably should have made a new thread for that question and that's really interesting because a GUI should be taking up more resources not improving the performance.
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Why do you need a gui? If your using linux as a server .... The beauty of using linux is because you can customize linux to fit your needs. For example, I am using Debian 4 which is 200MB fully installed. Then I install all the essentials to make databases, websites, srcds, etc to work.
If you really want a gui, then develop one in gnome/kde and have fun doing so.
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08-25-2008, 03:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-25-2008, 03:50 PM by ultramoo.)
Thanks for the info! Though i'm starting to get use to console now, the only time I'd really like a GUI is when moving files around. It's by far safer and easier.
I like the idea of turning GUI on when needed. I just need to figure out how to install it without reinstalling the entire OS. Nothing good on google with this topic, i'm on my own.
I've now started on a Server/Client application that will help me move files around the linux box. GUI will be processed on the Client Machine which will type all the file commands to the server for me ^^. (I bet sombody has already made somthing like this...) But since i'm going this far I've decided to add SRCDS control system. It finds all game servers installed and displays them on a nice list. So I can shutdown / restart srcds with a click of a button. I'm about 60% complete and will post the application here if anyone else wants to use it for their server.
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If you use ubuntu, just use 'sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop' and it installs all of the necessary packages for Xfce4. Just that easy. (replace xubuntu with ubuntu-desktop for gnome, kubuntu desktop for kde, though I wouldn't)