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:
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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!
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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.
No network, no touch input, no USB, so it's pretty much useless at this stage, but hey! I got a legit screenshot 
