Functioning Distros

[enadele]

Hi.

I've been having problems with my Fedora 12 installation. Both openal and graphics are nonfunctional and I get a ton of errors about missing files.

Due to issues with other software also, I am moving to a different distro but first I have a question. What distros are people successfully running the 5.x series client on (with no issues or errors preferably)? I need something that works, is 64 bit and has good virtualization support.

Thanks for the input.

[Sen]

I had it running on Fedora12 32bit, OpenSuse 11.0 32bit and and Gentoo (whatever is current) 32bit. I believe each with binary and official client.
Not sure about the sound, but graphics was fine on each of them; all on NVidia.

Sen

[Rigwyn]

I have no problems running in on Ubuntu(Xubuntu) 9.10 32bit

[Raekh]

I need something that [..] is 64 bit

Fedora12 32bit,
OpenSuse 11.0 32bit
Gentoo [..] 32bit

Ubuntu(Xubuntu) 9.10 32bit

Debian/Sid 32bit here.

[bilbous]

mandriva 2010.0 64bit
A bit of futzing with openal
never used virtualization much but I think it is available in standard repositories.

[Bajazag]

Ubuntu 9.10 64bit.
No sound because too much tech stuff bores me.

[enadele]

Thanks for the replies

64 bit is a requirement for me, even if it does cause issues. I've been looking into Ubuntu, Mandriva and Scientific Linux.

[RlyDontKnow]

Hi.

I've been having problems with my Fedora 12 installation. Both openal and graphics are nonfunctional and I get a ton of errors about missing files.

Due to issues with other software also, I am moving to a different distro but first I have a question. What distros are people successfully running the 5.x series client on (with no issues or errors preferably)? I need something that works, is 64 bit and has good virtualization support.

Thanks for the input.

Scientific Linux 5.4 x86_64 here having (nearly) no issue at all (running on trunk, not the release client).
as some side-note: I'm running an ATI graphics card with fglrx 10.3 - had some issue with older driver versions and with my nvidia card (a 6800GT with latest binary driver), but that might have been due to the card being partially broken (it burnt out by now)
openal needed slight tweaking (had to change one config entry) to make it work properly (else it kept killing all other audio)

[Overtherainbow]

Archlinux.

[Ric95]

I run either Gentoo 64 or Xubuntu 9.10 /64. I find the Xubuntu 9.10 to be the least troublesome OS I've ever used.
Gentoo is really good , but I over-optimized. Now its quirky and I end up spending more time playing with the OS than I do using it..
So I normaly use Xubuntu.

[Lirrec]

Opensuse 11.2 x86_64
Most versions are running fine , except some minor issues (a missing symlink for 11.2 +5.4 for example ).

[Elvicat]

this topic is a few months old but i'll put this info here anyway.
centos 5.5 32bit as far as i know openal doesn't install on it's own and i atleast had to install the nvidia drivers to get that going but other than that it's a very stable dist.

[RlyDontKnow]

this topic is a few months old but i'll put this info here anyway.
centos 5.5 32bit as far as i know openal doesn't install on it's own and i atleast had to install the nvidia drivers to get that going but other than that it's a very stable dist.

openal installs there and is functional it's basically the same as Scientific Linux 5.5 which I've been using.
anyway note that rhel isn't fully supported atm as it doesn't meet the minimum glibc version (it has 2.5, minimum for ps is 2.7).
it will most probably still work, anyway, as the only function that isn't in 2.5 is not used afaik (sscanf used by ptmalloc which is not used, but still linked by some cs lib), however I'm not 100% on that one.

[citizen]

Debian GNU/Linux Lenny 32-bit: official client segfaults. Self-compiled one works quite well, except i can't see the bars for stamina etc.

[urbanrod]

Opensuse 11.2 x86_64
Most versions are running fine , except some minor issues (a missing symlink for 11.2 +5.4 for example ).

Hey Lirrec, does the packman repo (openSUSE 11.2) has the latest planeshift packages version? What I see is a 0.4.00-1175.pm.1175.5 main package version so note sure if I should install it from repo or downloading the latest bin file from planeshift source.

Thanks in advance.