Only 8 days into his new job, Ian Murdock gave an interview about his future plans: He wants to close the ‘usability gap’ between Solaris and Linux. It’s no revelation that there is a gap between Solaris and Linux, but until now I didn’t found it explained in a such simple and clear manner: Solaris has very good technologies, like Containers, ZFS, DTrace but lacks on the side of a simple installation or a powerful package management. I would like to quote one question he put up and which explains just everything: “So, could we take all that stuff above Linux and put it above Solaris in a way that does not leave behind all of all the differentiating features of Solaris?” It’s just the way FreeBSD works since 1993…