1. Introduction
1.1. Why a Domino R5 installation mini-HOWTO?
I faced Domino for Linux in February 2002. It happened because of unstable
Domino R5 functioning on an Windows NT Server with powerful hardware
resources. I read the "Understanding Domino for Linux" white paper and I
decided to move our Domino server to Linux. My first Linux distribution was
Mandrake 8.1. I know this French distribution is one of the easiest and
friendly for a newbie. Now it has worked pretty well for more than 10 months
without any interference. Cool :) A few months ago the chairmen decided to
implement one more Domino server at our high school; we had no money to
purchase a powerful server and I made up my mind to deploy it on Linux
again with existing hardware. Now we have a very stable second one on SuSE
7.3 (I have studied this distribution already) with poor hardware (CPU:
Celeron 400, RAM: 192MB, HDD: 20GB IDE).
As time permits, I hope to provide hints and tips for improving
performance of Domino on Linux, and for configuring the environment on
various Linux distributions.
1.2. Who should read this mini-HOWTO?
If you plan to save your employer's money and get amazing stability (and
save your time) you should think about Domino on Linux. This mini-HOWTO
helps you to install and configure Domino on the Linux distributions
supported by IBM Lotus Software (SuSE) and others (Mandrake). I describe
specific prerequisites and quirks for each distribution. I do not want
anyone to repeat my sleepless nights and all-day-long red eyes.
1.3. About the author
Mykola Buryak is the originator and current maintainer of this mini-HOWTO.
Please send all suggestions for improvement, criticisms, or more-or-less
related questions to me at <m.b. at gmx.co.uk> or
<1upus at gmx.ch>. Please do not send me spam or hate mail.
Mykola Buryak has been employed by National Mining University, Ukraine, as
Lotus System Administrator since September 2000. Before that time he was
working as Computer/Network Technician there. He has 3 year experience
with Web Development, 2 year in Lotus Domino/Notes Administration, 1 year
in Linux and IBM DB2 UDB. In his spare time he teaches RUP and Python at
the Geoinformatics Department, National Mining University.
He holds an Hon. Masters Degree in Information Control Systems and Technologies
and the following certifications for the present:
1.4. Acknowledgements
Mary Gardiner did an awesome job of editing the original version for
style and consistency.
Additional thanks to Dan Scott and his DB2 Version 7.1 for Linux HOWTO
which I got the document structure from.
1.5. License & Copyright
Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Mykola Buryak
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation; with no invariant sections, with no Front-Cover Texts,
with no Back-Cover Text. A copy of the license is included in Section 6.
This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See
Section 6 for more details.
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