The Postman

Hello, everyone! I'm new to the forums and I just thought I'd stop by and make a thread. Now, I'm not sure if this is the appropriate area of the forum to discuss this or if I'm being ridiculous, but: I was wondering if there were plans to get Day Z working on Linux servers. A lot of people have servers that run some form of a Linux distro. I am one of them. I own a rather large server for the extensive purposes of renting space and hosting my own gaming servers. More the latter than the former. I really want to put up a server for Day Z, but I would prefer not to have to spend the money for Windows Server 2008 (which I have no interest in using to begin with). Though, I am tempted to do just that for this mod since I enjoy it so much. I was also wondering if 50 players was the maximum size that a server can be. I am curious, because I have quite a bit of horsepower to work with. It would be cool to get a lot of players in one server. My server specs are: 32 GB of DDR2 RAM Two Dual-Core AMDs (I forget the specific model) clocked at 2.4 Ghz Two 500 GB HDDs 100 Mbps connection speed The server is located in Texas. I appear as Calavera in-game, by the way. I'd appreciate it if a dev could answer my questions. I apologize if I've asked something that's been asked over and over. I didn't see it in the FAQ.

Since Day Z is (to me at least) some sort of quasi-MMO, I feel that it would be cooler if there were a really big server. I mean, one that could handle some serious player loads. So, I have decided to put Windows Server 2008 on my server with the help of some friends. The server has 32 GB of RAM and two dual-core CPUs clocked at 2.4 Ghz with a connection rate of 100 Mbps. I'm thinking that we could have a fairly large population sustained on the server with those kind of specs, no? Maybe 300 people? Possibly more? I don't really know how much of those resources that ARMA II would hog up, so I'm definitely not sure how well the mod would hold up against my server.

That is true. I'll look to see what I can do, though.

We could at least give it a shot, right? I mean, as a stress test.

Griff, that would be pretty cool. Damnit, I just wish that I could do it with my Linux server. Makes me sad, bro. I'll talk about installing 2008 on it with my server co-owner.

I would pitch in our server. All of it, in fact, if it's able to run on Debian.