What about your operating system?

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What about your operating system?

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Well, what about your operating system? What operating system use the normal BZFlag players? What operating system use the site managers, hosting managers and all people working with things a little complicated? I'm very curious about this, since i have 2 operating system: Windows xp and Ubuntu... and i think Ubuntu is better (very very better).
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For playing you can use nearly any operating system.
For hosting I recommend a *nix system (Unix/BSD, Linux, MacOSX).

I personally play on Windows XP SP3 and host on Debian Etch.
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Our most well supported operating system for running the graphical client is Windows.

As for "site managers", well, I'd assume they would be web based, so it shouldn't matter what OS you are on unless you are going to be hosting your own servers on your own system.
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I play the BZFlag on ubuntu 10.04 and do some map hosting on ubuntu 10.04 server edition.
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I play on a 15" MacbookPro (2007) that is hooked up to a 22'" monitor via DVI.

Laptop specs:

2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 800 MHz 3MB L2 cache
2 GB DDR2 RAM
500GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive

Operating system is Snow Leopard (10.6.4) and I compile my own BZFlag client.

As for hosting, Ubuntu 10.04 Server Edition is the way to go. (My server is located in Ohio and is hosted by xlhost. This is the same place bzexcess and planet-mofo are located)

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Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 1066 MHz FSB 4MB L2 cache
2GB DDR2 RAM
160GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
1500GB Transfer
10Mbps connection
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I play on Arch Linux.
My server is also on Arch Linux.
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interesting... :)
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ubuntu

I used to use win vista, however that computer died
every now and then mac OSX tiger or win 7
and in rare cases you will find me with windows ME (yes bz works on win me (at 8 fps))

but I mostly use ubuntu
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good... the best is ubuntu!!! ;)
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i use Windows 7
im on my notebook sometimes and that is the same, recently my desktop broke so my netbook specs are:
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I tried Windows a few times (up to Windows 7), but I cannot adjust to it, also the game seems slower when I played it in Windows. Back to my old favorite Gentoo the game works perfect.
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probe wrote:also the game seems slower when I played it in Windows
Not to go off topic here, but you likely just need to install video drivers from the graphics chip manufacturer. The ones included with Windows 7 (or pulled from Windows Update) will run OpenGL calls through Direct3D which makes OpenGL slower and/or more buggy.
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I am GNU/Linux user (Fedora12 right now) and have played the game on several distributions like Gentoo, Sabayon, Ubuntu and Archlinux during the last years.
I also have a Windoze XP installed and played bz on it but the game runs better on Linux sytems (at least for me). So 99% of the time I am playing is on Linux.
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I used to say it runs better in linux. However, with a dual boot opensuse 11.3/Win7 now - I'd have to say they both run bz just fine now.

opensuse is still primary though...
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I dont think there's any difference where you play bz. As long as you play it :D, windows or linux doesnt matter. ;D
But..for that matter, I'd recommend ubuntu..idk..for me it feels much much nicer than windows xp. :]
Besides..i'd say is more of pc matter. The better ur comp, the smoother the game play.
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Ubuntu ftw.
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let me add to the fray, I wouldn't recommend this version of opensuse due to their way of attempting to load a 3d nvidia driver...
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Why, on Ubuntu Maverick 10.10 the BZFlag settings (like the favourite servers) are not saved? When I close bzflag and than I open it, if I have added some server to the favourite list before I close bzflag, there aren't "orange"... Why?
thx for your time
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is it just the favorite servers or do key mappings change aswell?
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I play on my gaming desktop. (AMD Phenom II x4 at 3.6ghz, 4GB DDR3, ATi Radeon 5770, Windows 7) Its a custom build, I hate OEM stuff most of the time.
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ducktape...Is just the favourite servers, the key and GUI settings are ok.
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hmm, then i dont know what it is. i was gonna say it could be your config file resetting everytime you boot the game, but then your key and gui settings would change. but im not even sure if favorite servers are saved in the config file.
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Fox in the Fog wrote:Why, on Ubuntu Maverick 10.10 the BZFlag settings (like the favourite servers) are not saved? When I close bzflag and than I open it, if I have added some server to the favourite list before I close bzflag, there aren't "orange"... Why?
thx for your time
As far as I know, favorites only work if your Options > Cache Settings > Server List Cache option is set to something other than Off / Backup Mode. I'm unsure if turning that option on will cause auth issues, so... good luck. :)
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I'm playing BZFlag on Ubuntu, hosting still on Ubuntu.

With Windows I get 5 FPS, while on Ubuntu I get 18.

A regular BZFlag player with a regular PC (just like Tank Buster22) would use Windows.
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