What is a good Linux OS for dedicated game hosting?

Er, well - not sure. I am thinking any will do a good job. A better question worth asking is what hardware do you need and how well is that hardware supported.

For instance NVIDIA releases binaries compatible with current Linux kernels. So many Linux uses who need hardware graphic acceleration use NVIDIA. Note that NVIDIA is releasing binaries for particular kernels, not distributions.

That is, an NVIDIA binary compatible with Linux kernel 2.6.26 should work on RedHat running 2.6.26 as well as on Debian running 2.6.26. 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.

Fedora and Ubuntu are arguably some of the most user friendly (and therefore quickest to deploy) linux distributions out there. I've been using Fedora for all sorts of applications over the years, including Counterstrike, Neverwinter NIghts and Half-Life servers, and have had no reason to change. Both Ubuntu and Fedora have "Live CD's" that let you try out the OS (GUI and all) without actually installing it on your system, so you can make a somewhat informed decision about which one to use.

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