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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