[Zope] Linux distributions for Zope Servers

[Jaroslav Lukesh]

> Odesílatel: Dennis Allison <allison at sumeru.stanford.EDU>
> I'm not excited about converting to the RH Enterprise distribution and so
> am beginning to shop around for a different, a possibly better,
> distribution--something stable, well integrated, complete, and with a
> rational release cycle, stable SMP support, and support for AMD Athlon
> and AMD-64 processors. There are a number of candidate--Suse,
> Mandrake, Debian, etc.  
> 
> Anyone care to document their experiences, good and bad?

good: Mandrake 9.1 (install all into RAID-1 include swap (if you have only
one drive too! Later you could put second drive), use XFS journalling
filesystem.

bad: Windows NT2k (MANY problems)
 
> One of the nicest features of the RedHat system was/is the RedHat network
> which makes it possible to upgrade off the net quickly and easily.  While

> it's not really a requirement, I would miss it if an equivalent service
> were not available.

mandrake have kind of updates too, but free.

JL.