The launch of the latest release of
Apple OS X (Tiger) has a lot more of interest to the techie mind that just more fancy GUI features. For those who havent seen/used or even heard of Mac OS, itd
based on UNIX. However, in this particular release, Apple decided replace the age-old
scheduler daemon (crond) with its very own unique
launchd. This move is quite significant in many ways. Curious? Here's a
detailed review by arstechnica.com