From: "John Poltorak" <jp@warpix.org>
Which version of CMF should I install?
The latest.
And should I expect it to install correctly using the defaults?
Correctly, yes. Usefully, no. In my opinion, CMF is not useful out of the box, and it takes a lot of work to make it so. I would suggest that you install CPS (preferrably the CPS3 betas, they are getting really good now) or Plone, to get something to start with. It is after all a Content Management FRAMEWORK. ;-)
Zope has installed itself in /opt/zope. Does CMF install itself under Zope and will it be able to find the correct loation for itself?
No, CMF doesn't install itself anywhere. You have to do that. But it's just a matter of unpacking the tgz and moving the directories in it files to your Products directory.