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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:37:58 -0800
From:      "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
To:        Josh Aas <josh@kflag.net>
Cc:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.me.uk>, <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, <sjg@juniper.net>
Subject:   Re: updating cron and atrun
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Josh Aas <josh@kflag.net> wrote:
> FreeBSD. I'm curious to hear if there are actual technical reasons
> that it's worthwhile for FreeBSD to do it.

Reduce the friction of people moving from other systems to FreeBSD?

> considering. In an earlier email you said "People generally have no
> idea what they do and people are unwilling to chance using them or
> learning something new..." That doesn't sound like a description of
> "basic functionality" that necessarily needs to be a part of a base
> operating system.

The whole argument about what the masses grok would lead everyone to
adopt Windows.

I've used at(1) extensively in the past, I consider it basic
functionality.




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