Updated Freeware
Packages
Several freeware tools and libraries are included
in the Solaris 9 release. The following freeware packages have been updated
for the Solaris 9 release:
Note -
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.
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Apache 1.3.20 – UNIX based HTTP server
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bash 2.05 – Sh-compatible
command language interpreter
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bzip2 1.0.1 – Block-sorting file
compressor
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gzip 1.3 – GNU Zip compression utility
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less 358 – A pager, similar to the more command
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mkisofs 1.13 – A utility that builds
a CD image by using an ISO 9660 file system
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tcsh 6.0.10 – C shell with file-name
completion and command-line editing
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zip 2.3 – Compression and file-packaging
utility
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zsh 3.0.8 – Command interpreter (shell)
usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor
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Freeware Libraries
The following libraries have also been included in
the Solaris 9 release:
Note -
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.
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Glib 1.2.10 – A library of useful
data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, and a lexical scanner.
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GTK+ 1.2.10 – The GIMP toolkit. A
set of libraries that can be used to create graphical user interfaces.
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Jpeg 6b – Standardized compression
software for full-color and gray-scale images.
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Libpng 1.0.10 – PNG reference library.
PNG is a format for storing images. This format is designed to be the successor
to the GIF format and, to some extent, the more complex TIFF format.
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Tcl/tk 8.33 – TCL-TK GUI Toolkit
is an Xqq toolkit that is implemented with the Tcl scripting language.
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Libtif f3.55 – Provides support for
reading and writing TIFF and a small collection of tools for doing simple
manipulations of TIFF images.
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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.
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Freeware Commands
and Utilities
The following commands and utilities
have also been included in the Solaris 9 release:
Note -
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.
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Gnu Grep 2.4.2 – A pattern matcher
that is twice as fast as the standard UNIX egrep utility.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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