I know it has been asked many times which os is best for zope, I have yet to see a 'system administration perspective' in the discussion. By this I mean which os seems to have the most worry free administration of a zope instances. I have installed zope on both FreeBSD and various linucies and here is what I have observed: 1) Freebsd ports collection is an easy way to install zope -- the ports maintainer takes care of making the build files to handle all the zope dependencies including python versions, libraries, etc. However, I have yet to use portupgrade to apply security patches to zope instances running on freebsd. Does anyone know of using cvsupdate for getting security patches works over the ports collection of zope smoothly? 2) I've run zope on Red Hat and Suse linux. In both cases I found that I needed to install a different version of python than the one packaged with the distro becuase Zope had specific dependencies for new versions python. Applying patches to zope is manual. It has always been very inconvenient to build python and PIL in a separate run instances for zope. This seems like a major pain in the ... 3) I have never run zope on windows except for test versions of plone that were loaded through binary installers -- completely packaged with python and zope. While this is convenient, I don't know if I want to run a windows server for any publicly accessible site. 4) I am very interested to know how others manage zope sites. Are there any best practices? Are there any linux distributions that are more kind to zope than others -- meaning they don't have dependencies on old python versions, or they have a very good patch system (debian apt updates for zope??) -- David Bear phone: 602-496-0424 fax: 602-496-0955 College of Public Programs/ASU University Center Rm 622 411 N Central Phoenix, AZ 85007-0685 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"