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<section>
<title>What's this</title>
<para>
-This is an implementation of syslog daemon and client for native win32 platform.
-It complies to <ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.txt">RFC 3164</ulink>,
-<quote>The BSD Syslog Protocol</quote>.
+This is another syslog for windows, it includes daemon and client.
+Features:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+<ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.txt">RFC 3164</ulink>-compliant;
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+high performance;
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+message forwarding;
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+log rotation;
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+completely open-source.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>What for</title>
<para>
-Maybe you are:
+Primarily it was written for myself to help to create portable software.
+So if you are:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
-porting existing UNIX software to native win32 platform;
+porting existing UNIX software to native win32 platform,
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
-writing portable software;
+writing portable software,
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
-writing pure windows software but understanding that EventLog sucks and looking for an alternative.
+writing pure windows software but understanding that EventLog sucks and looking for an alternative
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-I hope that in any of these cases this stuff will be useful for you.
+then I hope that this stuff will be useful for you too.
</para>
<para>
Of course, you may just use the daemon as the network message collector.
-But in this case you better look at UNIX.
+But I think that any UNIX alternative is much better.
+Not because this stuff is not so good (I hope), just because the underlying system is better.
</para>
</section>