Re: Amanda-friendly distro?

[Jobst Schmalenbach]

Hi I have never done this before so I am taking a guessing game. Wouldn't it be a good idea to approach the higher ranking (online) magazines, e.g. http://www.linux-magazine.com/ http://www.wired.com/ http://www.zdnet.com/ http://www.linux.org/news/index.html http://www.strangehorizons.com others (hint hint hint) and then deliver to them an email/link/pdf that contains text and pictures so they can put up some nice fancy report about the latest (and greates) Amanda into their magazines? Further how about sending some email to the major distro providers, explaining what the new Amanda can do (compared to the old). I am not sure how they go about (and alert them) producing RPMS/DEPS/packages or whether a program provider delivers packages that are then put into a distro, no idea. I am not sure whether the program maintainer provides the RPMS/DEP/etc, anyone knows???? I have been using Amanda for probably 10 years or so and always compiled it (currently using 2.6.0p2) and never thought of  marketing Amanda ;-) as I know how good it is .... I have contributed the odd stuff, but maybe its time I do some big ...  and I just re-wrote "amtoc" and created an "amtoc appender to current tape", havent put that up yet (and again dont know how to). Jobst On 10/03/2010 15:40, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@verizon.net> wrote: Well, TBT Dustin, other than the rather terse ChangeLog, no one seems to be using much ink bragging about the newest bells and whistles.  Some timely article submissions to the review sites might let them know that the old girl hasn't turned grey or started to have hot flashes. That's a good point! A few folks have been working on that sort of thing, notably Chris Hoogendyk, but we could certainly use more publicity. As the next release starts coming out (we should have a beta ready next week, when Jean-Louis is back in town), I'll try to make some noise. Any suggestions as to *where* I should do that would be appreciated -- what "review sites" do you think would be useful? Dustin -- Jobst Schmalenbach General Manager, Webdevelopment and Tech Support P  +61 3 9532 7677 M +61 411 611 855 E  j...@barrett.com.au W www.barrett.com.au Everybody lives by selling something Sales Training, Consulting, Coaching, Seminars and Resources Barrett Sales Blog Subscribe to receive free weekly advice and tips for people who live by selling something