SuSE uses Either RPM or tar balls from their YaST "Yet another setup tool" which does about everything you would want to do in configuration. Red Had package manager only uses RPM's. SuSE also give you about everything you could possibly want on their 6 CD's, as opposed to Red had. RH seems more interested in "packaging" packages into various versions in various boxes. SuSE gives you ALL in a single box. They also have a rather intimate relationship with the XFree86 people and usually have the most current vidio drivers as a result. I have had much better results with SuSE and have since given up on Red Had. I can not speak, however, to the Debian dist. I would Recommend SuSE to anyone. -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Jerry Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 11:29 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Re. Zope/SuSE 6.x How-To v0.1 ready for review Maybe I'm thinking of an obsolete version, but isn't SuSE able to use RPM's for package installation? I thought (at one point, anyhow) their default package format was RPM. At any rate, SuSE 6.3 is at the local Best Buys priced around $30.00, with six CD's full of goodies, and a fairly usable manual. You could start with Debian (Corel, Red Hat, your choice) as your base OS, download the Zope RPM, and if the SuSE CDs still use RPM's, grab any additional packages you want off the SuSE CDs. I guess this does sound a bit daunting for newbie, after all. Just a thought. Good luck! Jerry S. _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )