> The primary commercial Unix implementation is nowadays Oracle Solaris. [...] By making the same change in Linux we minimize the difference towards the primary Unix implementation, thus easing portability from Solaris.
I wonder what he means by "primary"? I'm reasonably sure than in 2012 OS X was used on more machines than Oracle Solaris.
Solaris 10 did have some neat features not found in Linux then, not just ZFS, but containers etc.
By 2012 as the concept of things like AWS was gaining traction, I'm surprised that legacy systems like solaris was even a consideration, I'd be very surprised if solaris was chosen in any greenfield installation (rather than extensions to existing companies with a lot of solaris/oracle) in the last 15 years.
They are primarily not concerned with your workstation.
So when I tell you the Debian community mainly cares about servers, I'm not bullshitting you and I know who the fuck Lennart is.
I liked init systems of yore. I don't ask to toss out systems because its very useful in some settings, however, I prefer the init systems we had, when it comes to my personal workstation preferences.
Sadly that ship has sailed, but it's finally 10-12 years later that there are some niceties to systemd that make it worth it to me (systemd-resolved in particular).