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 Message-ID: <584.1581370678@kaos.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <CAJzSF_77peGakgSQXKoVF3x03ZaSRND2tAkaJNe-TG1TC8Fr1Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJzSF_7N4A-_6LfjivWRirNkTHv3ANWu%2BBX6g1UOKqdYmDZZNA@mail.gmail.com> <6701.1581190231@critter.freebsd.dk> <97A66670F59C9C626B5090E3@triton.njm.me.uk> <8967.1581243035@critter.freebsd.dk> <55C50689-6DA8-4D44-92BB-72C38B54AC96@cschubert.com> <202002091350.019DoZrf084564@slippy.cwsent.com> <CAJzSF_5dEhnEx5wKGyJ6NrjyJtSiscH9EDrZH-y9EFnE1kN25w@mail.gmail.com> <202002091605.019G5Csj051412@slippy.cwsent.com> <CAJzSF_77peGakgSQXKoVF3x03ZaSRND2tAkaJNe-TG1TC8Fr1Q@mail.gmail.com>
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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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