Lotus Domino R5 on Linux

Jeremy Fowler jfowler at westrope.com
Mon Nov 12 21:45:54 CST 2001


Well there is no plans as far as I know. They have instructions on how to run it
using wine:
ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lotusweb/product/domino/linux/wineinstall.PDF or you can
always use the web client. Doesn't even look like there will be an RNext version
either. Maybe one day.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Midkiff [mailto:chris at datacaptech.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:28 PM
> To: 'Kclug'
> Subject: RE: Lotus Domino R5 on Linux
>
>
> Since the subject came up, does anyone know of any plans for a Notes client
> for 'nix?  My brother-in-law is a notes developer (yeh, I know...), and has
> notes server running on rhat.  Sure would be nice if he didn't have to go to
> the winders box to test things.
>
> You'd think that the client would take a small percentage of IBM's 'Billion'
> linux dollars this year ;-)
>
> Chris Midkiff
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Meeker [mailto:rmeeker at kc.rr.com]
> > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:32 PM
> > To: 'Jeremy Fowler'; 'Kclug'
> > Subject: RE: Lotus Domino R5 on Linux
> >
> >
> > Domino R5 on linux runs as well as it does on NT.  In fact, I'd have to
> > say that it is just a bit more stable in lowmem linux systems than on NT
> > or 2000.
> >
> > Pros: As easy to administer as on NT (which isn't really that easy)
> > 	More stable - especially on lowmem systems (256 MB or less in
> > small environments)
> >
> > Cons: Initial install routine is not as pretty (installing the software
> > to the hard drive)
> > 	No Notes client that runs natively on linux
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeremy Fowler [mailto:jfowler at westrope.com]
> > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 10:33 AM
> > To: Kclug
> > Subject: Lotus Domino R5 on Linux
> >
> >
> > Anyone use Lotus Domino on Linux before? Pros/Cons/Comments?
> >
> >
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