[Product-Developers] Re: please recommend (or warn me off) a linux flavor that can...

PythonHack pythonhack at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 01:15:30 UTC 2008


Thank you Derek and Tim

Which version(s) of ubuntu are you using? I am told 7.10 includes python 
2.5 so I will need to use chroot to set up a python 2.4 virtual 
environment for zc.buildout (I intend to follow Martin Aspelli's book).

Is this how you handle it?

Thanks again
Ian

Better yet, does anyone have a buildout

Derek Broughton wrote:
> PythonHack wrote:
> 
>> Hey Plonistas
>>
>> I FINALLY get to set up a linux box! (there is a God after all) and I
>> need to impress the bean-counters.
>>
>> This box will be used for python/zope/plone development (and proof of
>> the stack) but I need a kickstart selecting a linux flavor.
>>
>> I have tons of DOS/windows experience (25+ years) but virtually none of
>> unix/linux.  I am confident I can learn what I need to 'on the fly' but
>> right now the OS has to 'just work' (I can't get into compiling it, etc.)
>>
>> I need to setup multiple instances of plone 3 with zeo (via buildout) as
>> quickly as possible and with the absolute least difficulty.  I may also
>> be setting up:
>> - pound with apache (it's a quad core box)
>> - entransit and/or deliverance
>> - varnish
>>
>> I had looked at centOS and ubuntu server.
> 
> I run a CentOS and multiple Ubuntu machines, and the CentOS one is an
> absolute PITA.  Ubuntu is much simpler.
>> I was about to install ubuntu server but I just noticed that it uses
>> .deb instead of .rpm.  Is ubuntu going to be a limitation for me later
>> on, or are debian versions universally available?
> 
> More so than rpms - I have far more headaches getting rpms to play nice
> together than I do with ubuntu and debs.  Some days I could kill the guy
> who decided to go with CentOS.
> 
> Just remember to completely ignore zope & plone in the package system
> (whether you use CentOS or Ubuntu) - they're practically stone-age.
> 
> Also, put all Plone "sites" in their own zope databases (ZODB) - we didn't
> do that and retrofitting is becoming a problem...  The system grew rather
> faster than expected :-)





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