It's between Redhat 9.2, Mandrake, and Windows 2000. Are there limitations as to each? I thank you for your input.

Hi Bill, While I've only started developing with Zope recently, I've been deploying a Zope product (FLE) for the last year. We use RedHat 9 and are very satisfied. Having said that, I have moved all my other servers to Debian GNU/Linux, and have found it to be superior, particularly with regard to software installation and updating. I've started my own Zope development on a Debian server. There's may be an issue regarding Red Hat's support for the "standard" distribution - this has gone fully open source as Fedora. I'm not a fan of Mandrake. I'd say use Linux; using Debian GNU/Linux is even better. Regards, Cormac. Bill Zielinski wrote:

Without trying to start any flamewar, I want to know which is the best solution for installing and running Zope. This server is behind a firewall and used for development only, so it will only be seen internally. I am trying to simplify the web update process for our departments, and I hope Zope is the answer. I know both operating systems rather well. It's between Redhat 9.2, Mandrake, and Windows 2000. Are there limitations as to each? I thank you for your input.

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Bill Zielinski wrote:

Without trying to start any flamewar, I want to know which is the best solution for installing and running Zope. This server is behind a firewall and used for development only, so it will only be seen internally. I am trying to simplify the web update process for our departments, and I hope Zope is the answer. I know both operating systems rather well. It's between Redhat 9.2, Mandrake, and Windows 2000. Are there limitations as to each? I thank you for your input.

Both. Linux: Use it for main zope server. Zope have much better performance and stability at heavy loads under linux (does not lock ups), you can run some products only at linux OS (but these products are much interesting than products that running only at windows). Windows: Use only as zope helper server (mapped via http mounter product) for exact DOC, XLS conversion to HTML via COM (you need also Office XP to do this job). These conversions are much better than on Linux side. You can too run some products only at Windows OS. But if you does not need absolutely exact look of converted HTML documents as their office DOC/XLS originals, you probably does not need zope on windows. Did you see Windows server running without restart service or system for more than one year? With linux it is true! If I see for example long running process which consume CPU due some attacker, I can kill only that process (thread) and Zope lives as fresh running. But these abnormalities I was see TWO times in half year (both was done by myself :o) Regards -- Jaroslav Lukeš -- Tento e-mail nemu*že obsahovat VIRY jelikož nepocházi z virózního systému M$ Windows!