Transitioning From Oracle® Solaris 10 to Oracle Solaris 11.2

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Updated: December 2014
 
 

Oracle Solaris Desktop Features

The default desktop environment in this release is the Oracle Solaris Desktop, which includes GNOME 2.30 from the GNOME Foundation. Also included is the Firefox web browser, Thunderbird Email client, and the Lightning calendar manager from the Mozilla Foundation.


Note -  If you use the text installation method, the Oracle Solaris Desktop package (solaris-desktop) is not installed on your system by default. Also, the solaris-desktop package cannot be applied directly to a running system. See Installing the Oracle Solaris Desktop Software Package After an Installation.

    Other supported desktop features include the following:

  • Accessibility feature enhancements

  • Bluefish HTML editor

  • Compiz OpenGL based window manager

  • D-Bus IPC Framework

  • Evince PDF viewer

  • GIMP image editing program

  • GNOME Python bindings

  • Gobby text editing collaboration tool

  • Multimedia support enhancements

  • Planner and openproj project management tools

  • Trusted Extensions integration

  • xchat IRC client

  • Xserver features that augment the desktop, such as virtual terminal (VT) switching