With the recent departure of Redhat Linux from the "free" distros, can somebody recommend a version that is stable with the latest release of production releases of Zope/Plone. charlie
No experience yet, but I am moving to Gentoo which has has many good reports. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Charlie Jones wrote:
With the recent departure of Redhat Linux from the "free" distros, can somebody recommend a version that is stable with the latest release of production releases of Zope/Plone.
charlie
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Any. Ok, seriously, I have no problems with Zope on Slackware, Mandrake, or Mandrake for SPARC. And no problems on Solaris 8 (though that's not Linux nor free). Any recommendation I give would be based on my preferences (Slack! ;) without any knowledge of your needs. Rob --- Charlie Jones <charlie.jones@cadence-technologies.com> wrote:
With the recent departure of Redhat Linux from the "free" distros, can somebody recommend a version that is stable with the latest release of production releases of Zope/Plone.
charlie
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dne četrtek 04 december 2003 20:43 je Charlie Jones napisal(a):
With the recent departure of Redhat Linux from the "free" distros, can somebody recommend a version that is stable with the latest release of production releases of Zope/Plone.
Fedora doesn't seem all that bad, although your IT managers will probably prefer something that's commercially supported (e.g. SuSE). I don't see much fuss about picking any distribution out there. What matters is security and availability, and in the recent days it seems that all of them are very serious about security. RedHat chose not to be available for free anymore, but that's their business, I still think we should be grateful for all the support they're giving to the free software community. I'm about to go the SuSE way, as it has its own autoinstall, and can be installed from a local ftp mirror (which makes replicating installations painless). But it all depends on your needs and preferences. I used slackware until about a year ago, when the number of systems I had to look after grew so much I just couldn't live with slack's package management any more. - -- Jure Koren, n.i. jure@aufbix.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/z5X+9iFCvmuhrCIRAhsDAKDZGQWdKXeDTOya7gBkadpIqzLVdgCfW+TQ FOhG1VV4kLHg9tbXP3IlsKs= =nX2q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
FWIW, Gentoo has done a world class job on their zope distribution, it comes with curses scripts for managing instance homes and installing products into them. It has a large number of zope packages available in its package management system. -kapil On 12/4/03 11:43 AM, "Charlie Jones" <charlie.jones@cadence-technologies.com> wrote:
With the recent departure of Redhat Linux from the "free" distros, can somebody recommend a version that is stable with the latest release of production releases of Zope/Plone.
charlie
You could consider FreeBSD. -----Original Message----- From: zope-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Jones Sent: 04 December 2003 20:44 To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] RedHat Alternative... With the recent departure of Redhat Linux from the "free" distros, can somebody recommend a version that is stable with the latest release of production releases of Zope/Plone. charlie _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
For servers I can recommend OpenBSD. Works as a charm with Zope, never had a problem. Very secure, very fast, dead easy to install. OpenBSD (and FreeBSD, I don't know?) have two types of packages for most software. Binary packages, that work like typical rpms, that is they have requirements on other packages and blablabla, and also source code packages, which are source code, makefiles and scripts to get stuff running on Open BSD. The good thing with the source packages is that you don't need new packages for new versions of OpenBSD, hence, these packages require less management effeort for maintainer, so there are more of them that are actually working. :-) I like OpenBSD, but my ventures into using it as a desktop wasn't very successful. But as a server it kicks both Linux and Microsoft ass. :-) If I has the time I would compare it with FreeBSD someday, it would be interesting.
Hello Charlie, I vote for SuSE. I use it since SuSE 1.0 and it just works. Of course some things are different from RedHat, but everything is available. I install Zope from scratch (I do not use the SuSE Zope .rpm). And never had a problem running Zope. Ulrich -- World Wide Web Publisher, Ulrich Wisser, Vallatorpsv.158, S-18752 Täby http://www.publisher.de Tel: +46-8-53460905 Fax: +46-8-534 609 06
I second SuSE... Been using it for years... You want try mrtg? Install from CD it works in minutes! You want Appache, Appache2, or any one of over 3000 pre configured applications? As with Zope it's not always the latest and greatest, but you can get it running in minutes instead of investing weekends! If you find it's what you want, then you can start investing time... Then again only if required... I've been using the SuSE pre-configured Zope for years. It works. SuSE is simply the best I've seen. Jerry On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 23:12, Ulrich Wisser wrote:
Hello Charlie,
I vote for SuSE. I use it since SuSE 1.0 and it just works. Of course some things are different from RedHat, but everything is available.
I install Zope from scratch (I do not use the SuSE Zope .rpm). And never had a problem running Zope.
Ulrich
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