The Solaris 9 media includes a Companion CD. The following list summarizes the supplemental software that is provided on the Companion CD.
The software products that are offered on the Companion CD are revised for Solaris 9 Update releases. To view a current supplemental software list and download the software, see http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware.html.
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Accessibility Software – For special needs users, Open Source assistive software such as Emacspeak, the W3 browser, and UnWindows. |
Administration Tools – System administration tools, such as ethereal, sudo, and rpm. |
Web Infrastructure Software – Server software (daemons) for hosting web and Internet services. |
Desktop Environment and X Window Managers – Software that provides the graphical user interface for launching applications, file management, drag-and-drop icons, and so on. Several Window Manager packages are included as well as the K-Desktop Environment. |
Desktop Applications – Graphical desktop applications, including productivity and multimedia software. |
Command-line Tools and Utilities – Command-line utilities and tools such as the *utils packages from the GNU project. |
Editors – Applications that are used for writing text documents and software programs. |
Security Tools – Tools for system and network security monitoring and detection, such as snort, nmap, and tcpdump. |
Messaging Software – Client-side applications and tools for email, WWW, news, and chat. |
Languages – The gcc compiler and several high-level (scripting) programming languages. |
Developer Libraries – Collections of libraries with software routines for developers. |
Developer Tools – Tools for software developers, such as autoconf, automake, and cvs. |