Re: What happened to anacron?

[csieh <csieh fnal gov>]

This was all brought up long ago.  Clearly RedHat does NOT understand 
the desktop/workstation market.  I recently talked to a RedHat "sales" 
person about this issue and his answer was "we added Eclipse and 
OpenOffice" .

-Connie Sieh
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, John Haxby wrote:

> Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> 
> >My rememberance of the discussion was that it was dropped because
> >Enterprise systems were less likely to be turned off. I mentioned that
> >we have a ton of systems that have to be turned off when there is no one
> >present in the room... but got the idea I was in the minority case here.
> >I am just porting it from fedora/9 and putting it in our future tree of
> >extras.
> >  
> >
> That argument doesn't even begin to hold water with RHEL WS -- before 
> anacron came along I had to go around and train people not to switch off 
> their computers when they went home.   Many people do switch off their 
> workstations when they go home.    People developing large scale 
> enterprise software are probably going to be running RHEL ES on their 
> workstations as well.   Obviously I'm coming late to this debate, but I 
> would've had anacron installed by default for WS not installed by 
> default for ES and AS (well, you could have it not there for AS -- those 
> machines are supposed to be on all the time and I wouldn't expect to 
> find someone running AS on their workstation, not even me :-))
> 
> jch
> 
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