Free Beer 11!
Or is it Wine?
ROB NOVAK, SNAPPS
About Rob & SNAPPS
 Rob Novak, President, SNAPPS since 1997
 BS Management, Masters in Management and Public
Administration, Ph.D. Business Administration (ABD)
 IT industry for 25 years, consulting with
midmarket to global enterprises for 20
 Co-author of 5 books, writer of 20+ exams,
40+ articles, 400+ speaker engagements
 IBM/Lotus Business Partner for 21 years
 IBM Champion (2011-2015), Apple
Development Partner, and Intuit QuickBase®
Solution Provider
 Channel & OEM Partner, DOCOVA & SWING Software
Agenda
Beer
Wine
Demos
Free Beer!
Started in 2006 at ILUG – brought over 4 Heinekens from AMS to Dublin
Not well received
Switched to full round of Guinness for the room in 2007 in Dublin
Well received
And so it continued: Edinburgh, Belfast, London, St Louis, Amsterdam, etc…
and #11 in Ghent!
Free Beer: An Anthology
IamLUG - St. Louis
Mmmm,
Budweiser!
Mmmm,
Budweiser!
After four Free Beer Sessions, it was time...
FREE SCOTCH ONE
18 hours in...and just starting!
Free Beer 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 happened
Though the details
are not…”clear”
Now Let’s Talk About Wine
No, not that one
Wine Is Not an Emulator: a free and open source compatibility layer software application that
aims to allow applications designed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating
systems.
Duplicates functions of Windows by providing alternative implementations of the DLLs that
Windows programs call, and a process to substitute for the Windows NT kernel.
Some applications require more tweaking than simply installing the application in order to
work properly, such as manually configuring Wine to use certain Windows DLLs.
The Wine project does not integrate such workarounds into the Wine codebase…so…
CodeWeavers CrossOver
One of a dozen or so custom implementations of Wine that allow for tweaking Wine to install third party
programs that require changes to standard Windows installations and DLLs
General approach:
You have or need a third party application to work with CrossOver
You contract some time with the CrossOver developers to do a custom build
They deliver a custom build, if it works they eventually support it and integrate changes into the code
IBM Notes, Domino Designer and Domino Administrator are such custom-requiring beasts
Who pays for it? Our friends at Prominic.net. Because they’re good guys.
Installation
 About to become more streamlined, but today…
 Install CrossOver, configure for Windows XP emulation, enable legacy mode, make a reg entry
 Install Runtime Support Components required by Notes/Designer/Admin
 Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Redistributable
 Platform SDK Redistributable: GDI+
 Internet Explorer 7
 Flash Player 11
 Install Notes, Domino Designer, Domino Administrator
 Optional: Drag application icons to Dock (Mac) or desktop (Linux)
Memory Usage: Relatively Idle
Memory Usage: VMWare & Windows 7
Memory Usage: CrossOver® &
Domino Administrator
Memory Usage: CrossOver & Designer
Memory Usage: CrossOver & Notes
Memory Usage: CrossOver & All 3 Clients
A few bugs that remain
o Screen draws are not as fast as they could be if IBM were to get involved so that ClientSideGraphics could
remain enabled. To voice your opinion to IBM, please share a link to this project.
o Classic Notes views will sometimes lose focus on the Find dialog when Notes does keyword suggestions.
Clicking in the text input area again is the workaround.
o Design elements cannot be copy/pasted.
o Right click and drop-down menus appear near the location the mouse was last clicked instead of where they
should appear.
o At least on a MacBook Air, closing the laptop without stopping Notes seems to sometimes cause it to be
aborted when Mac OS sleeps.
o At least on a MacBook Air when using an external monitor, the window resizing and mouse clicks in Designer
do not always work correctly.
o At least on a European MacBook Pro, FixPack 3 for ND9.0.1 is not installing properly. We need to verify this on
other combinations.
o Third party add-ins to Notes may not draw properly (UI issues being the most common)
o Domino Server on Mac has an NSD issue which is not working. Once this is fixed, Domino Server can also run
natively on Mac!
o An equivalent for CTRL+BREAK to abort long operations which may be hung is needed.
Benefits
 Rapid launch (especially of Domino Administrator)
 Low cost solution (CrossOver is $59 after 14 day trial)
 Memory!, CPU, fans…
 Support efforts are easier for a single platform version (menus, etc.)
 No need to learn intricacies of VM platforms, or remain open to Windows vulnerabilities
 Appearance of full integration for end users
 IBM has deprecated webadmin.nsf
 Multiple versions can be installed in separate bottles (testing!!!)
How to Get the Goods
 Register name & email at http://Domino4Wine.com and get a link to custom CrossOver build
 That’s it.
Enjoy!
Questions?
Or, move on to more
free beer…cheers!
rnovak@snapps.com
Twitter: @IBMRockStar
Skype: RobNovak