Sneak Peek 1 was made to run on Suse, RedHat, Caldera and PHT TurboLinux, but reading the forum (http://www.notes.net) it runs also on other distros: Slackware, Mandrake and Debian to only name a few.
Sneak Peek 2, I hear, was released and given to people at Lotusphere Berlin. It ran on RedHat 6.1 and the news coming from there is that RedHat 6.1 will be supported.
With this new entry in the family of software running on Linux, there is even more momentum being gained by the little OS that could. I for one wish for a Notes client for GNOME or KDE, but as my post elsewhere in the thread indicates, this might be a bit premature.
Sneak Peek 1 was made to run on Suse, RedHat, Caldera and PHT TurboLinux, but reading the forum (http://www.notes.net) it runs also on other distros: Slackware, Mandrake and Debian to only name a few.
Sneak Peek 2, I hear, was released and given to people at Lotusphere Berlin. It ran on RedHat 6.1 and the news coming from there is that RedHat 6.1 will be supported.
With this new entry in the family of software running on Linux, there is even more momentum being gained by the little OS that could. I for one wish for a Notes client for GNOME or KDE, but as my post elsewhere in the thread indicates, this might be a bit premature.
Go Lotus!:o) With this new entry, Linux is gaining real
You have to realize that *WE* the techies would like nothing more than have the Notes client running on either KDE or GNOME (irreverant of the port -- Domino Sneak Peek 1 has been running on Red Hat, Caldera, PHT TurboLinux, Suse, Mandrake, Slackware and Debian).
However, you have to realize that the client is there for all people that use computers, which includes people that do other stuff for a living and where computers are a tool, not the primary focus of their jobs.
Therefore, is it realistic to think that a secretary would leave familiar territory (which is what Windows, to a certain degree affords) for Linux? I was at the Alternative: Linux Conference last week in Montreal last week and there was a lot of debate around that.
In the end, three things were agreed upon: One, the functionality provided by the Web Browser (and added applets) provided a lot of features you would want the Notes client in the first place; 2) Provide feedback to Lotus in regards to getting the Notes client ported to Linux -- realizing that Lotus has to pay its engineers and any resources placed to that effort are taken away from other places; and, 3) It is a good effort and Lotus should be commended for the work so far.
One last comment, since there was a rumour at the conference to that effect -- Someone told me that the Win32 Notes client ran on top of WINE, the Windows Emulator for Linux. Has anyone confirmed this?
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Sneak Peek 1 was made to run on Suse, RedHat, Caldera and PHT TurboLinux, but reading the forum (http://www.notes.net) it runs also on other distros: Slackware, Mandrake and Debian to only name a few.
Sneak Peek 2, I hear, was released and given to people at Lotusphere Berlin. It ran on RedHat 6.1 and the news coming from there is that RedHat 6.1 will be supported.
With this new entry in the family of software running on Linux, there is even more momentum being gained by the little OS that could. I for one wish for a Notes client for GNOME or KDE, but as my post elsewhere in the thread indicates, this might be a bit premature.
Go Lotus! :o)
Sneak Peek 1 was made to run on Suse, RedHat, Caldera and PHT TurboLinux, but reading the forum (http://www.notes.net) it runs also on other distros: Slackware, Mandrake and Debian to only name a few.
Sneak Peek 2, I hear, was released and given to people at Lotusphere Berlin. It ran on RedHat 6.1 and the news coming from there is that RedHat 6.1 will be supported.
With this new entry in the family of software running on Linux, there is even more momentum being gained by the little OS that could. I for one wish for a Notes client for GNOME or KDE, but as my post elsewhere in the thread indicates, this might be a bit premature.
Go Lotus! :o) With this new entry, Linux is gaining real
You have to realize that *WE* the techies would like nothing more than have the Notes client running on either KDE or GNOME (irreverant of the port -- Domino Sneak Peek 1 has been running on Red Hat, Caldera, PHT TurboLinux, Suse, Mandrake, Slackware and Debian).
However, you have to realize that the client is there for all people that use computers, which includes people that do other stuff for a living and where computers are a tool, not the primary focus of their jobs.
Therefore, is it realistic to think that a secretary would leave familiar territory (which is what Windows, to a certain degree affords) for Linux? I was at the Alternative: Linux Conference last week in Montreal last week and there was a lot of debate around that.
In the end, three things were agreed upon: One, the functionality provided by the Web Browser (and added applets) provided a lot of features you would want the Notes client in the first place; 2) Provide feedback to Lotus in regards to getting the Notes client ported to Linux -- realizing that Lotus has to pay its engineers and any resources placed to that effort are taken away from other places; and, 3) It is a good effort and Lotus should be commended for the work so far.
One last comment, since there was a rumour at the conference to that effect -- Someone told me that the Win32 Notes client ran on top of WINE, the Windows Emulator for Linux. Has anyone confirmed this?