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 Since CDE for Solaris is built on Solaris, you can take advantage of all of the features and benefits that Solaris offers. For example, CDE for Solaris allows complete, transparent access to network resources. Users can find and retrieve files, print to network printers, or run applications located on other systems. CDE for Solaris also provides comprehensive resources enabling desktop users, system administrators, and programmers to work together in a heterogeneous computing environment. Whether you work alone or in groups, CDE for Solaris enables you to exchange information and share resources across the network quickly and efficiently.
Table of Contents
  1. Transparent Access to Network Resources
  2. Consistent Interface Across Multiple Platforms
  3. Easy to Use Interface
  4. Customizable Environment
  5. Enhanced Workgroup Communication
  1. Easy Network Resource Management
  2. Increased Personal and Workgroup Productivity
  3. PC Interoperability
  4. Platforms and Requirements
 
 
 
 
Transparent Access to Network Resources
Since CDE for Solaris is built on Solaris, you can take advantage of all of the features and benefits that Solaris offers. For example, CDE for Solaris allows complete, transparent access to network resources. Users can find and retrieve files, print to network printers, or run applications located on other systems.

CDE for Solaris also provides comprehensive resources enabling desktop users, system administrators, and programmers to work together in a heterogeneous computing environment. Whether you work alone or in groups, CDE for Solaris enables you to exchange information and share resources across the network quickly and efficiently.

 
 
Consistent Interface Across Multiple Platforms
CDE for Solaris provides unprecedented interoperability and consistency across popular enterprise hardware platforms and operating systems. Because CDE is a joint effort supported by many industry leaders, users are assured of a common user interface on all systems that support CDE. CDE for Solaris is currently offered on the SPARC, x86, and Pentium architectures. CDE for Solaris is compatible with industry standards such as Motif, X11, MIME, and XAPIA. CDE for Solaris also supports OpenWindows and OpenStep applications. In addition, you can access Microsoft Windows and Macintosh applications with optional software.

 
 
Easy to Use Interface
Whether you're navigating the desktop, launching applications, or managing files, CDE's for Solaris graphical user interface (GUI) is simple to use and can be easily customized to fit your individual needs. There's also an extensive on-line help system that allows you to locate information on demand.

As the foundation for Sun's desktop, CDE for Solaris has been enhanced even further. Users, system administrators and developers benefit from the robust and powerful standards-desktop by increasing their productivity, reducing user support and training and easy web integration.

 
 
Customizable Environment

Extended Front Panel

  • Multiple monitor support enables each monitor's front panel to be configured separately.
  • Panoramic viewing - enables one logical screen image to be displayed across multiple monitors


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    Enhanced Workgroup Communication

    Electronic Mail

     
     
    Easy Network Resource Management

    File Manager

    Launch this new application to:
  • Show user, system or all processes
  • Sort processes by resource consumption
  • Suspend, resume or kill processes
  • Diagnose sick processes and contact their owning user via Address Manager


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    Increased Personal and Workgroup Productivity

    Address Manager

     
     
    PC Interoperability

    PC File Viewer

    PC file viewer lets you instantly view and copy text from many popular types of PC files:
  • Allows viewing of fully formatted documents--they are displayed just the way they were intended to appear when the document was created.
  • Automatically identifies file type attachments and launches PC file viewer from Mail or File Manager with a single mouse click.
  • Provides access to 17 different file types without requiring the original application.


  • X11R6.4
  • Motif 2.1
  • Smartcard


  • Platforms: Solaris SPARC, x86Intel (Solaris 7); Solaris SPARC (Solaris 2.6)
  • Operating System: Solaris 8, Solaris 7
  • Memory: 64 Mbytes


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    Platforms and Requirements

    Required

    • Memory: 64MB

    Supporting

    • Solaris 8, 7, and 2.6 Operating Environments (SPARC and Intel Architecture platforms)

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