My little community is odd yes. We have one guy, who hosts many Linux servers.. We have me, the guy who likes running the servers by the book for the most part. At least as far as using the dev's intended tools. IE, I use your updater instead of going the route the other guy does.. That's him.. He does that with most software he runs.. It is what it is. None of us told him to do things the way he does them either. And for the record, Cazador is not staff, just one of our many loonies. I run the files mostly the way you guys do and patch when and what you patch only. . Our current server is on a VM hosted on SUSE Enterprise.. 16 core host server, 24 gigs of ram. Great server OS. Love it. But it is a 32bit vm I inherited.. The hosts, who are actually hosting as a friendly favor for us, gave us the server os they had for windows. These guys only use Linux, so it is what they had onhand. Though I am seriously thinking of zipping up a vdi with a 64bit win7 server installed and transferring it to the host as a more longterm solution adverse to sticking with the older hook for the life of the server. I'd much rather have the same tools you guys have. But will be happy with what we got for now. Then there is the head Admin, he only took the server over to keep it afloat after Xevious quit.. Poor dude really has very little clue as to how to configure the server.. He is fine with playercontrol, dpm and dam and somewhat with hook commands. Though I am trying to show him how simple hook really is to use.. And how much better it is as well. I am just starting to learn your server files for my own self. Running an FL server is new to me really.. So I have a little bit to learn. I am not a coder, never said i was, so I am limited when C++ gets involved, for now. Already working on beginning years of learning code.. But we do have some people who could help with coding when needed. None the less I decided to help my old buddy out when he asked me to start taking care of the tech side of running the server.. Which, for the most part, I have made very simple for myself to run..
My goal for a while has been to figure a way to forcing the server to run in wine.. And I think it is totally possible.. It is a library issue.. That and some other missing windows components that need to be built in to make it all work right.. Just not enough heads working on this together to sort it out.. But my idea is to build a specific windows layer inside wine from a physical windows install on one of my machines.. There are obvious dependency issues with wine components and varients as well and how to get it all to work just right.. I may be able to actually avoid them altogether.. No clue how long this will take me to build.. But i promise when I am done and if it actually works, I will share it all with the FL community. This kinda thing could help alleviate the need to have VM's, that's if my idea works in the first place..lol Just imagine a world where you replace 1 folder and boom, windows is back the way you had it, completely.... Just a drag n drop.. Couple of clicks..... To me this is worth at least trying to do. Even if I fail miserably.. It's still worth it.
Anyway, you asked. Our weird ways mean ya'll no harm. Cazador will always snag updates the way he does. I will always be finding ways to rip components out of windows I consider to be insecure.. Like IE, Update, Activate, Cortana, WMP and so on.. And will always continue my odd projects trying to force windows to behave exactly how I want. A lot of which have worked out very well for me. And Glock will always be Glock. He may not know much about computers, but he is a good, down to earth person when it all boils down.
Coming from outside the box, I am Hooligan from Discovering CHAOS... We are a multi-gaming community who loves to play Freelancer and a whole slew of other games together. Currently I host a 7 Days to Die server in my home and am seriously considering Space Engineers or Empyrion: Galactic Survival as other options to host as well. Heck, if I had the hardware and bandwidth, we'd have quite a few little servers online right now..
And there's your answer.
edit: I guess I should also state that I myself am not happy running the 487 server as well. I see no reason to use it. But this is not up to me, so i apologize for any kind of confusion. I am only doing what was asked of me... *spins in whirlwind of confusing directions* Maybe that's why the ports are all borked!!
And yes, I already switched out for what is in your repos.. FYI, what Cazador uploaded was his own thing. Again, none of us in staff asked him to do that.
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