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yjftsjthsd-h on April 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Running SunOS 4 in QEMU (Sparc)

> FreeBSD has some of the features we had in 2005 on solaris 10...

Yeah, it really does feel like FreeBSD is the best successor:

* ZFS built in

* boot environments

* dtrace

* zone^wjails

(I feel like there was more that I'm forgetting?)

Although I do feel like it's less polished and the desktop support is comparatively lackluster. Oh well.

hestefisk on April 15, 2023 [–]

+ A clean, stable base system

tinus_hn on April 15, 2023 | [–]

Which meant that on this Unix system you had to compile a completely new Unix system (with the GNU tools and libraries) to be able to use any software that wasn’t hopelessly outdated.

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