Re: next Beta

[Jean Francois Martinez <jfm2 club-internet fr>]

Joe Klemmer wrote:

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> On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Karsten Weiss wrote:
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> > >     Heh, probably.  It's one of those topics that just keeps coming
> > > up.  I will keep saying the same thing, Postfix kicks 4$$ but sendmail
> > > should be the default.
> >
> > Thereby you basically say "postfix is the better program but you
> > should use sendmail" Sorry, but this doesn´t make sense to me. What´s
> > your real argument for this point of view? How would you explain this
> > point of view to an Linux novice?
> >
> > If there is a better solution we should use it as the default. This
> > would make life much easier for Linux novices who know neither
> > sendmail nor postfix and therefore probably would go with the default
> > MTA. Linux gurus would always be free to choose sendmail.
>
>         I have to look at things from the perspective of a UNIX SysAdmin.
> I work with Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD & Tru64 (though not so much the last
> one anymore).  I have to deal with managing many different systems and the
> more they have in common the better it is.
>

To begin with since you would still get your beloved sendmail I don't see why

you complain


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>         I know that most people in here think of Linux from the view of a
> desktop OS but I have to see it as part of the whole picture.
>

Then you use VI (or still better ED) since it is the only thing you have in
other Unixes,  you use
plain Bourne shell (the original one without history and line edition)
instead of
BASH, you struggle with Gawk and avoid Perl and Python as the plague
isn't it?   Aren't you getting tired of being held back by old Unixes?

Now my suggestion would be you get rid of legacy Unixes ASAP since they are
forcing
you to use inferior solutions and because coping with their idiosincracies
has a high cost.
You see during WWII the German Army had lots of armored vehicle models some
of them never
being produced at more than two or three dozen units.  Result was
desorganized
production and  providing spare parts was a logostical nightmare.  In the
meantime
Russians were building onlyone model for each variety of vehicle (eg heavy
tank, middle tank).
Russians won.

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Jean Francois Martinez

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