It doesn't make much difference to Zope itself but it does for third party modules. For example, the LDAP libraries work best on Linux, I'm not sure if they work at all on Windows. On the other hand if you want to use COM to integrate with Microsoft applications Windows would make more sense. Databases are another issue, some of the database adaptors aren't cross platform. Finally, older versions of Python didn't handle large files well on Windows but were okay on Linux. This is fixed now though. A
From: "Bill Zielinski" <bzielinski@co.midland.mi.us> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 08:28:29 -0400 To: <zope@zope.org> Subject: [Zope] Windows or Linux?
Without trying to start any flamewar, I want to know which is the best solution for installing and running Zope. This server is behind a firewall and used for development only, so it will only be seen internally. I am trying to simplify the web update process for our departments, and I hope Zope is the answer. I know both operating systems rather well. It's between Redhat 9.2, Mandrake, and Windows 2000. Are there limitations as to each? I thank you for your input.