Companion CD

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.

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.