[Zope] Windows or Linux?

[Andrew Veitch]

It doesn't make much difference to Zope itself but it does for third party
modules.

For example, the LDAP libraries work best on Linux, I'm not sure if they
work at all on Windows.

On the other hand if you want to use COM to integrate with Microsoft
applications Windows would make more sense.

Databases are another issue, some of the database adaptors aren't cross
platform.

Finally, older versions of Python didn't handle large files well on Windows
but were okay on Linux. This is fixed now though.

A

> From: "Bill Zielinski" <bzielinski at co.midland.mi.us>
> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 08:28:29 -0400
> To: <zope at zope.org>
> Subject: [Zope] Windows or Linux?
> 
> 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.