System Requirements, Availability and Pricing Lotus Domino R5 for Linux is supported on two leading commercial distributions of Linux: Red Hat Linux 6.0 and Caldera OpenLinux.
Ack! WHY?! That's not a very good idea on IBM's part. That's like saying "This product is only supported under Windows 95. You MAY be able to run it under Windows 98, but we won't support you if you do." They really should have made it generalized enough that it can run on all major distributions. There are going to be sysadmins out there who want Domino Server, but run Slackware or Debian.
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i'm just surprised that despite the closed-sourcedness of Notes, there are no LinuxPPC binaries. While I wouldn't ordinarily expect anyone to support the PPC platform, since IBM _makes_ a number of machines that use the PPC chip you'd think they'd want to at least pay the platform lip service.. i guess they assume any ppc machines they sold will be running AIX anyway.:P
That being said, i do think that one of linux's greatest strengths is its flexibility across hardware platforms, and they really should make an effort to compile binaries for the ppc and alpha platforms.. i guess those markets just aren't big enough. But still i'm sure it's a lot less effort to support redhat linuxppc vs. redhat x86 than it is to support, say, distributions running different versions of glibc.
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Lotus Domino R5 for Linux is supported on two leading commercial distributions of Linux: Red Hat Linux 6.0 and Caldera OpenLinux.
Ack! WHY?! That's not a very good idea on IBM's part. That's like saying "This product is only supported under Windows 95. You MAY be able to run it under Windows 98, but we won't support you if you do." They really should have made it generalized enough that it can run on all major distributions. There are going to be sysadmins out there who want Domino Server, but run Slackware or Debian.
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i'm just surprised that despite the closed-sourcedness of Notes, there are no LinuxPPC binaries. While I wouldn't ordinarily expect anyone to support the PPC platform, since IBM _makes_ a number of machines that use the PPC chip you'd think they'd want to at least pay the platform lip service.. i guess they assume any ppc machines they sold will be running AIX anyway. :P
That being said, i do think that one of linux's greatest strengths is its flexibility across hardware platforms, and they really should make an effort to compile binaries for the ppc and alpha platforms.. i guess those markets just aren't big enough. But still i'm sure it's a lot less effort to support redhat linuxppc vs. redhat x86 than it is to support, say, distributions running different versions of glibc.
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