Exactly. It works, and if you know your way around a Linux environment, it's fine.
(slightly off topic ahead)
Also, the only thing which prevents RDi from running on non-x86 is that crufty FlexLM DRM that's embedded in it. If you look closely at the distribution, it's a bunch of Eclipse plugins that can be installed in any stock Eclipse. Most of them are Java (even the terminal emulation part, that's just lifted from Host on Demand), with one exception: the FlexLM licensing shared object that's embedded in one of the plugins. Looking at the pattern here, I suspect Flexera only provides x86 and amd64 blobs and that IBM just needs to build around that.
If IBM would remove FlexLM and simply replace it with a simple system that requires logging into your IBM account (in the same way the RDi installer requires) for license activation/authorization, it would happily work on non-x86 platforms. Windows on ARM is becoming more and more widely available, so this would also address that user base.
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From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Justin Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 5:53 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDI for Linux
I've ran RDi on Fedora in the past, but it wasn't a smooth process. IBM support did help, but they reminded me every time that Fedora is not officially supported for RDi.
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From: Yvan Janssens [mailto:friedkiwi@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2019 9:34 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDI for Linux
Yes, afaik it's x86 only. I've had success in the supported scenarios (Ubuntu), but also in less supported setups (NixOS).
If you go outside the supported realm, you're on your own re: dependencies/libraries it uses.
You might be able to get it to work using qemu-user-x86 if you really want to, but that's more of a hack than anything else and I wouldn't run that on PROD. It's stable enough to run Domino 10 on a Raspberry Pi 4, but your mileage might vary.
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