If I get a lot of good comments on this I'll make it a little how to on zope.org What *nix is best to use with Zope? For dev and desktop I personally prefer Mandrake, but what I like becomes irrelevant when it's time to set up a serious server for production use. What matters then is: - performance - configurability - ease-of-use and lack of hacks - integration with RDBMS - backup possibilities - ZEO (load balancing and caching). Does anybody have any real experience of production deployment with various *nix'es. Which ones are better than other and which ones to avoid. The "ease-of-use and lack of hacks" is important to me since I'm just an experienced *nix user. Far from expert. Thank you, Peter --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 2002-08-02