[luckydude]

So I believe you on the Solaris userspace, it was full of System 5 garbage. GNU was a much better answer.

But on SunOS 4.x, you had userspace problems? That was a pretty stock BSD userspace with a lot of bugfixes. Every open source makefile in the world just worked when you typed make on SunOS. Seemed pretty solid to me, I think the only thing I would do is add perl, it took Sun a long time to decide to include perl (if they ever did).