I predate the Solaris stuff, I&#x27;m not a fan.  I liked SunOS which was a bugfixed and enhanced BSD.  When I wrote the sourceos paper I was talking about SunOS.  (I lied, I overlapped with Solaris but I try and block that out)<p>All that said, Sun had an ethos of caring.  In the early days of bitmover amy had some quote about the sun man pages versus the linux man pages, if someone can find that, it&#x27;s awesome.  We keep a sun machine in our cluster just so we can go read sane man pages about sed or ed or awk or whatever.  Linux man pages suck.<p>Sun got shoved into having to care about System V and it sucked.  I hated it and left, so did a bunch of other people.  But Sun carried on and the ethos of caring carried on and Bryan and crew were a big part of that.  My _guess_ is that Solaris and its follow ons are actually pleasant.  I&#x27;ll be pissed if I install it and it doesn&#x27;t have all the GNU goodness.  If that&#x27;s the case then you are right, they don&#x27;t get it.<p>What I expect to see is goodness plus careful curating.  That&#x27;s the Sun way.