Leadership By Numbers :: Red Hat IBM Lotus Notes Live DVD

A few bloggers have pointed out the new RedHat/IBM initiative for supporting IBM/Lotus Domino on RedHat. It's cool, but I don't think the word has been spread, that RedHat is also providing an ISO for your evaluation. The ISO is for a Linux Live-CD with IBM/Lotus Notes 8.

http://rhx.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/Red_Hat_IBM_Lotus_Notes_8.iso

Very cool.

I went ahead, downloaded it and burned it to DVD. Amazingly, it fired up on my Dell Latitude D630 without a complaint. Even something as mainstream as Ubuntu has required that I use the Dell supported version of Ubuntu.

All you need is a user.id, and you can run your Notes from a Live-CD.

Important notes:

The RedHat configuration does not support reading a NTFS file. So, you'll need to load your user.id onto a flash drive or something else before starting up the Live-CD. As a matter of fact. You don't need a hard drive, at all.
A Live-CD means that the OS is reading from a CD, which is not as fast as a hard drive. So, be patient. However, once RedHat is up and running, and you have Lotus Notes working--it blazes, because so much has been loaded into RAM.
It's a limited time evaluation, and explains the limitations with a comprehensive, 13 page pdf.

How's it work ? I'm impressed. I'll be making some copies and handing them out at work and bringing them to the next DC Notes User Group.

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Comments

1 - Jack, how would you rank the Red Hat Live DVD compared to the SuSE Open Collaboration Client LiveDVD from Novell that was bundled with the Lotusphere bags this year? Have you tried both?

I was quite impressed with SuSE, but I'm a complete Linux novice and have little awareness of the what and what not's to be looking for in a Linux distro.

Posted by Lars Olufsen At 07:49:18 AM On 04/17/2008 | - Website - |