[Mimedefang] Can't locate Unix/Syslog.pm

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On Wed, 28 May 2003, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote:

> I have chosen the Mandrake environemtn bacause of the Progressive nature 
> of the OS.  It is a little more Current, and people that have become 
> accustomed to the SUSE or RedHat Shops look at Mandrake with their Jaws 
>  agapel!  Soon after that, they are all converts.
> 
> The NICEST thing I've found with Linux (and then I'll get off of my 
> Soapbox), is that there is a Linux for all types of Users.  Most of them 
> are the same, all have their own modifications that set them apart from 
> the crowd.  Getting to know them all is a chore I enjoy the most. 
>  Thanks for the tip on Gentoo, I'll look into that as well!.  If you are 
> interested in a Truely Graphical environment for your servers, I'd 
> HIGHLY Recommend Mandrake, in fact I'm installing 9.1 on a Backup 
> Cluster as we speak.

The reason I still run RH on all my servers is because almost every open
source project I've looked at that was written with Linux support had
support for RH.  Many of the HOWTOs and guides are written with RH in
mind.  It's so popular that an open source project would be crazy to not
support it.  Not supporting RH is comparable to inventing the next killer
app and only releasing it for OpenBeOS. :)  Granted RH has its problems as
do all distributions.  I don't spend too much time installing anything via
RPMS.  In fact I almost always end up uninstalling dozens of RPMs from a
typical install.  I compile my daemons from source.  I also compile most
libraries from scratch.  I use a stock kernel for about 30 minutes after
initial installation (long enough to update a few things and compile my
own kernel :) ).  I do like the directory structure though.  Perhaps the 
reason I'm so used to RH is because I got started using PPC Linux distros 
like MkLinux, LinuxPPC, and YellowDog.  Those are all RH-based.

Maybe I should give Gentoo a try.  The next time I have a machine freed up 
I'll have to do that.

Justin