First of all:
disclaimer: I am not 100% sober at the time of writing... and having said
that.. SO
AWESOME to see this thread still being alive & active today!!
... I think I participated before, not sure, but I sure as heck am gonna do so now!
Question => How do you recognize a (former?) SunOS / Solaris user/admin on FreeBSD?
Answer =>
/opt is most likely propagated on the box ("It works, why do you ask?") , and when you boot it
dtlogin may also show up:
What's 'dtlogin' you may ask? "Only"
the main way to log onto a Solaris box when skipping the console back in the days!
Providing us access to the Common Desktop Environment ("CDE"), and I just
cannot help but mention how much the above means to me... see.. I took a personal interest in Sun / Sun Solaris; back in the day I even kept 3 (!) personal support licenses for Solaris => 2x Solaris x86 for my generic servers, and one for my Sparc Blade box (= true Sun hardware!). I still have that Blade box to this very day. I also have several Sun merch, amongst which 2 Java t-shirts and one Sun shirt (iirc: "The road to innovation isn't paved at all!").
You
betcha this is personal!
When Oracle took over... I SAW what they were trying to pull: I
saw my E 129,- personal license fee for Solaris/x86 (and SunSolve (!!)) go all the way up to E768,99 (<= NOT making this up!) "out of the blue". I hated ("disliked") Oracle ever since.
Given the above... can you
imagine my "HOLY <self-censored>?!!!" when I discovered, long after the facts, that this thing called FreeBSD existed which... had
adopted all of the "good stuff" of Solaris? I'm talking: ZFS, pkg_add, DTrace... even the SunOS firewall was (and still
is!) part of FreeBSD. Yah... and
then I discovered that Sun Microsystems themselves helped out with porting ZFS over to FreeBSD... and I was
sold.
Even to this very day of writing it can still get to me a bit, because I
love tech and fell hard for this "Unix thing". I had to give up on SunOS / Solaris but found a
new home (and a much more inviting community!)
right here!
Sorry for the ramble but this isn't so much about the desktop and all for me... it's everythind behind the scenes as well. I
lived SunOS, I loved every part of it. But with all due respect... I could never get behind Open Solaris, I also don't like OpenIndiana (I
do admire all the effort people are putting into that mind you!).
Anyway... I found my place
right here... and never looked back.
In my "not so humble (personal!) opinion" it's
FreeBSD that is the spiritiual successor of SunOS.
Why? So... riddle me this: I've been out of the loop for approx. 5 years due to personal reasons. I have seen & experienced 5
years worth of updates and guess what? I picked up right where I left off! Sure I made a few mistakes as well, but ... I had my 14.2 box up & running
within a day, I set up my source tree only 1 days or so later. Went "bleeding edge" 2 - 3 more days afterwards. Back on 13.5 (= my 2nd VM) it only took me a few more days to get all this going (all using binary packages).
... and yet I lost all touch with Linux ("MicrosoftCorporationII.WindowsSubsystemForLinux") and I just can't be bothered anymore. No respect left:
Code:
peter@PLWin11:/mnt/c/Users/lionp$ man man
-bash: /usr/bin/man: No such file or directory
Meanwhile, with the world of FreeBSD:
Code:
peter@bsd:/opt/jails $ ls
base.txz gamma/ kernel.txz lib32.txz psi/
peter@bsd:/opt/jails $ tar tf base.txz | grep man | wc -l
17248
peter@bsd:/opt/jails $
Knowledge is
power, and if you ask me then Linux prefers you not having too much of it. Meanwhile most of the knowledge is a solid part of the FreeBSD base system, as seen above.
Anywhoo... that's my story
Hope you enjoyed.
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