Is Solaris a desktop OS?
Historically, Solaris was developed as proprietary software. In June 2005, Sun Microsystems released most of the codebase under the CDDL license, and founded the OpenSolaris open-source project….Oracle Solaris.
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Does Solaris have a GUI?
The Solaris 9 operating environment supports two GUIs, the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and the GNOME desktop.
What is Solaris OS for?
Oracle Solaris is the best enterprise operating system for Oracle Database and Java applications. Focused enhancements across CPU, memory, file system, I/O, networking, and security deliver the best database, middleware, and application performance for Oracle workloads.
What is included in Oracle Solaris 11?
Oracle Solaris 11 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.
What is the default desktop environment for Oracle Solaris?
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.
What’s new in Solaris 11 desktop accessibility?
The Dasher on-screen keyboard also has been added in this release. For more information, see Oracle Solaris 11 Desktop Accessibility Guide. Note that the GNOME On-screen Keyboard (GOK) program that is used in Oracle Solaris 10 is no longer available. Use the Dasher application as a replacement for some users.
Does the Oracle Solaris 11 text installer include GNOME desktop?
The Oracle Solaris 11 text installer does not include the primary software package that includes the GNOME 2.30 desktop. If you use this installation method, you will need to install the solaris-desktop package afterwards.