Freeware

Several freeware tools and libraries are included in the Solaris 9 release. The following freeware packages have been updated for the Solaris 9 release:

To view license terms, attribution, and copyright statements for freeware in this list, the default license path is /usr/share/src/<freeware name>. If the Solaris operating environment has been installed anywhere other than the default, modify the given path to access the file at the installed location.

• Apache 1.3.20 - UNIX based HTTP server

• bash 2.05 - Sh-compatible command language interpreter

• bzip2 1.0.1 - Block-sorting file compressor

• gzip 1.3 - GNU Zip compression utility

• less 358 - A pager, similar to the more command

• mkisofs 1.13 - A utility that builds a CD image by using an ISO9660 file system

• tcsh 6.0.10 - C shell with file-name completion and command-line editing

• zip 2.3 - Compression and file-packaging utility

• zsh 3.0.8 - Command interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor

The following libraries have also been included in the Solaris 9 release:

To view license terms, attribution, and copyright statements for the freeware libraries in this list, the default license path is /usr/sfw/share/src/<freeware name>. If the Solaris operating environment has been installed anywhere other than the default, modify the given path to access the file at the installed location.

• Glib 1.2.10 - A library of useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, and a lexical scanner.

• GTK+ 1.2.10 - The GIMP toolkit. A set of libraries that can be used to create graphical user interfaces.

• Jpeg 6b - Standardized compression software for full-color and gray- scale images.

• Libpng 1.0.10 - PNG reference library. PNG is a format for storing images that is designed to be the successor to the GIF format and, to some extent, the more complex TIFF format.

• Tcl/tk 8.33 - TCL-TK GUI Toolkit is an Xqq toolkit that is implemented with the Tcl scripting language.

• Libtif f3.55 - Provides support for reading and writing TIFF and a small collection of tools for doing simple manipulations of TIFF images.

• Libxml2 2.3.6 - A C library that provides Extensible Markup Language (XML) support. XML is the universal format for structured documents and data on the web.

The following commands and utilities have also been included in the Solaris 9 release:

To view license terms, attribution, and copyright statements for the freeware commands and utilities in this list, the default license path is /usr/sfw/share/src/<freeware name>. If the Solaris operating environment has been installed anywhere other than the default, modify the given path to access the file at the installed location.

• Gnu Grep 2.4.2 - A pattern matcher that is twice as fast as the standard UNIX egrep utility.

• Gnu Tar 1.13 - An archiver that includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression and decompression, remote archives, and other special features.

• Ncftp Client 3.0.3 - A free set of programs that use the File Transfer Protocol. This set is an alternative to the standard ftp program that comes with UNIX systems.

• Samba 2.2.2 - The free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX and other operating systems. SMB and CIFS are protocols by which many PC-related machines share files, printers, and other information.

• Tcp-wrappers 7.6 - Small daemon programs that monitor and filter incoming requests for network services. These programs log the client host name of incoming requests and thus enhance network security.

• Gnu Wget 1.6 - A free network utility to retrieve files from the Web by using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet protocols.