Kern features were integrated in unexpected places. Like, for instance, I could run some command on my Solaris server and create a resource pool of processors and memory; and it was so integrated that this contract could be applied to individual network connections. I could allocate half a processor or some memory to, say, an oracle process for licensing reasons right within the smf, one command. Sure, I can do these things on modern Linux and bsd, and I make my living doing complex things with k8s these days, but it all seems like such a hacked together mess compared to what we had.
cyberpunk|2 years ago