I'd like to propose that ZC drops the "generic" Linux binary distribution in favor of an RPM distribution that would be "guaranteed" to run on the latest Red Hat release or the one before it, but might also work on Mandrake, etc.
I like the linux tarball a lot. With it you can get a Zope installation running pretty much anywhere on the filesystem with great speed and little hassle. (Not having to think about the system Python version, for instance.) I may have strange use patterns, but I do that often enough to notice. I won't cry over it going away if the new source install is as simple as described. But I sure find it a handy thing to have around (and have never had any problems with it on any or the various and often strange environments I've used it on.) --jcc