Cron to be deprecated in favor of Upstart in Ubuntu
Ubuntus Upstart is an init daemon replacement, quite analagous to OS Xs launchd. Launchd also replaced cron on OS X - and upstart plans to replace cron on Ubuntu. No telling when, but all my cron jobs will need to be reformatted.
Update: Sept 2011. Three years later and still waiting...
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