Improving Syslog

Martin Schütte lists at mschuette.name
Sat May 3 13:29:35 UTC 2008


Edwin Groothuis schrieb:
>> that would prevent adoption; just like FreeBSD keeps Sendmail instead of 
>> adopting Postfix in its base system.
> There are other reasons for this. And the way the mail system is
> setup makes it is very simple to replace the default MTA with an
> other MTA in the ports collection.

Certainly, it was just an example.

My point is only that old, slowly evolving, well-known, and tested 
programs (legitimately) build up a certain amount of trust and inertia. 
Thus making it difficult to replace them because the new program has to 
be so much better to justify the replacement.

-- 
Martin


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