Per Dustin's request, I did a bit of hacking on the readme. My draft is attached. I culled the release notes and NEWS file. I'd appreciate comments and corrections back by the end of the business day Monday. A few questions: The current example of a fast dump involves filling 2 GB tapes in four hours. Has anyone got a more modern example? As I don't use tapes I can't provide one. (Several might be nice for the success stories page, http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_success_stories.) The copyright notice is U of M through 1998. How are subsequent contributions licensed? I conjecture under the same terms, but as this is a legal question I thought I should ask. I don't see the files KERBEROS.HOW-TO-GET or docs/KERBEROS in trunk. Reference to them should probably go away. Also, I note that the README refers to two files which no longer exist, COPYRIGHT-REGEX and COPYRIGHT-APACHE. Unless there is good reason not to, I think I should remove the reference to them. Again, as this deals with copyrights, I thought I should ask. Finally, we can probably update the list of known compatible systems. Additions and deletions, particularly of version numbers, are welcome. For example, I suspect we can reasonably restrict Linux to version 2.6 kernels. AIX 3.2 and 4.1 BSDI BSD/OS 2.1 and 3.1 DEC OSF/1 3.2 and 4.0 FreeBSD 2.2.5 IRIX 5.2 and 6.3 GNU/Linux on x86, m68k, alpha, sparc, arm and powerpc Mac OS X 10 NetBSD 1.0 Nextstep 3 (*) OpenBSD 2.5 x86, sparc, etc (ports available) SunOS 4.1.x (x >= 1) and 5.[567] Ultrix 4.2 HP-UX 9.x and 10.x (x >= 01) Thank you. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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