What you need for this book

Plone runs under Windows, Mac OS X, and virtually all flavors of Linux/Unix, which means that you will be able to work through virtually the entire book on your desktop or laptop computer. Plone comes with "batteries included", which means that you don't need anything particular installed on your machine in order to get started. Plone's point-and-click installer will download and install a complete Plone web hosting environment, consisting of Python, Zope and Plone.