Beta 2 Dedicated server for Linux

#1 Not expecting a guide or explanation, but perhaps an update on the progress of this if anything. Thanks guys.

#2
For that, you can freely and hardly bash me.

bank has done a good deal of work here and has Linux dedicated up and running. He sent me a good solid amount of patches and being the avoid-the-unpleasant-at-all-cost ass I am, I rather bugged Matt to grant bank write access to the repo so he can commit this himself and spare me the pain of manually merging all this stuff (especially since I can't test any of the Linux-side things myself--and I sure won't set up a VM-hosted Linux for that). This didn't happen and in retrospect, I should have just sit down and put in the boring time and merged the damn thing.

So yeah, I was the point it got stuck at.

#3 *Pulls out the pitchfork* We demand action *yeah!*.

No problem, thanks for the heads up Rene.

#4 Thanks for this update... keep us updated for next Beta may be :D

#5 *Sharpens Pitch Fork* LOL Josh, "I'll stand with you!!??!!"
@Rene I love it when peps are honest - shows good character!
please keep us updated as this is something I think we all need ;-)

#6
Thanks for the patience guys.

I hope to be rolling in the patches during the current beta cycle.

#7 Best news for the last time! Thanks.

#8 Hi Rene,

Is it included in the Beta 2?

thanks,

#9 Also want to know about this, I hate running servers on windows-server

#10 I will bump this thread as it has been move down fast in the forum list during beta 2 issues posting.

Thanks,

#11 Thanks for the bump, this and a possible community supported Linux client is the only thing keeping me from using T3D.

#12 Bump!
:-)

#13 @Rene,

I know it's not your priority as it is only a community support but if you can just take 1 minute to tell us if the code has been merged? if not, if it will be merged in BETA3 or at a later stage? or if BETA2 breaks the current implementation and we need Bank to work on it (if he has time^^).

Thanks,

#14
Very sorry guys. I let this thread completely slip through the cracks.

Unfortunately, I don't have good news either. There's been a lot of unexpected stuff going on which constantly pushed this down the list of priorities and it doesn't look like I will be able to come back to this. Maybe bank has some good news.

Sorry to let you down :(

#15 That's not a good news, but a news :D thanks!

I hope bank will confirm that his code is still working in Beta 2 or 3 (soon) and that we can expect to have something in next releases? :D

Or is there any way to share Bank's code/changes? I have no clue how much work it is to put this in place.

thanks,

#16 This would be awesome news.. running windows dedicated servers is costly.

#17
AFAIK bank is pretty swamped ATM with Afterworld keeping him pretty busy.

I'll make sure to point him to the thread next time I catch him.

#18 Thanks.
I think this feature is very interesting for all multiplayer games.

#19 I have running "Full" template of T3D Beta 3 on Linux. Dedicated-only of course.
There are still a lot of changes required to be applied in order to make it working, but last betas already includes some of the changes (thanks Rene & Tom!).

As soon as I find some spare time, I'll prepare the patch and will post the link here.

Notes: I was able to build it only by using GCC 4.1.

#20 this is some good news and thanks for all your hard work bank.
with a dedicated linux server T3D may become a viable option for me, again thanks for all the work you have put in.