Several freeware tools and libraries are included in the Solaris 8 release. These tools include:
bash - Sh- compatible command language interpreter
bzip2 - Block-sorting file compressor
gpatch - Used to apply patch files to originals
gzip - GNU zip compression utility
less - A pager, like more
libz - Also known as 'zlib', this is a library that performs compression (specifically, RFCs 1950-1952)
mkisofs - Builds a CD image using a iso9660 file system
rpm2cpio - Transforms a package in RPM format (Red Hat Package Manager) to a cpio archive
tcsh - C shell with file name completion and command line editing
zip - Compression and file packaging utility
zsh - Command interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor