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Hopefully they do a better job than Apple. I had a number of issues with their init/cron replacement.

so true! Every time i'm forced to deal with launchd for scheduling, I wish I was using cron.

This is what I am looking forward to. Cron, atd, and init all have functionality that should be integrated and udev aware.

And this functionality should be easily available to all applications. If I want to send a specific email at noon, or backup my laptop drive every night at 3am only when on my home network, etc., I should be able to without using 5 different daemons or programs kept running in the background and hacked-together scripts.

Ooh - hadn't seen that - looks interesting. I stand corrected.