A message from the BSD gods?

[bgroper]

Yeah, so sad. Solaris has been a huge part of my professional career, more than twenty years. Sun will always bring me sweet memories.

We too often lament the passing of Sun Microsystems Inc.

 

[cy@]

/usr/src/contrib and /usr/src/sys/contrib are files originally from contributed software to BSD but now are required components. That is, they are typically developed outside of the BSD source tree. One *may* have been able to run 4.4BSD without its contrib directories but that was 30+ years back!

Correct. But will move to the main source tree when we, FreeBSD, take ownership of them. Case in point ipfilter. I moved it from sys/contrib to sys/netpfil after one too many local patches applied to it. Suggested by glebius@.

 

[cy@]

We too often lament the passing of Sun Microsystems Inc.

Yeah. That was a fun part of my career, leading the Solaris Team at $((JOB-1)). I still have a bit of Sun swag, including a Sun golf shirt that I wear for a day at BSDCan when I'm there. People always remark about it.

Those were good memories.

 

[astyle]

FWIW, Solaris did start out as a BSD UNIX (Forked from 4.2 BSD) before becoming SVR4. Back in 1990s and early 2000s, it was important to know the distinction if you were a UNIX geek... and nowadays, it's the historical trivia that you pull out as entertainment at LAN parties.

 

[cracauer@]

SunOS 5 (Aka Solaris 2) felt about half as fast as SunOS 4 (the BSD based one). But at least it had a ANSI C complicant C library and header files.

 

[Crivens]

But at least it had a ANSI C complicant C library and header files.

Freud was guiding your fingers, it seems. Compliant or complicated?