GNOME 2.0 Desktop, an advanced user environment for the Solaris
OE, is now ready for production use. It has been built by Sun
Microsystems, Inc. and is fully supported.
GNOME 2.0 Desktop delivers a whole new desktop experience by
taking advantage of a wealth of new features and benefits,
including:
Unified Desktop
Runs on the Solaris Operating Environment,
GNU/Linux, and many other UNIX-based platforms, allowing users to
work more productively in heterogeneous computing
environments.
Powerful Yet Easy to Use
Provides an intuitive, easy-to-use desktop
with an attractive user interface, which can reduce learning time
and costs. It also provides a set of desktop preference panels and
a consistent configuration management system to make it easy to
personalize the system to suit individual preferences.
Built-in Accessibility
Provides advanced keyboard navigation,
keyboard control, and visual theming options.
Flexible
Runs CDE/Motif and Java technology-based
applications without modification, thus preserving existing
software investments.
Open Standards
Embraces a broad range of industry standards,
facilitating interoperability, Internet communication, and seamless
data interchange.
Mainstream Applications
Comes with a wealth of productivity
applications and utilities, helping improve desktop
productivity.
System Requirements
Solaris 8 Operating Environment or higher (SPARC or x86
Architecture Editions). (Note that Solaris 9 OE, x86 Edition is
available with Solaris 9 OE 12/02.)
Workstation or Sun Ray thin client running Solaris 8 OE or
later
Minimum of 128 Mbytes of memory for a workstation or, for a Sun
Ray configuration, 96 Mbytes of memory.
225 MBytes of free disk space.
GNOME 2.0 Desktop requires that specific system patches be
installed to ensure proper operation. Many of these are installed
automatically by the GNOME installer. Check the GNOME 2.0 Patches page for
a complete list of required patches, including those that you may
have to install manually.
Note that several new patches have just been made available for
the English release of GNOME 2.0 Desktop. You can download them
from SunSolve. Here are the
patch numbers:
Solaris 9 OE / x86 Edition: 112786-04, 114015-04, 114034-02,
114201-01, 114277-01, 114313-01, 114568-02, 114687-01, 114689-01,
114691-01, 114693-01, 114695-01
Note that you will also need approximately 600 Mbytes of
additional free disk space for the downloaded file and the install
image directory. These files can be deleted after installation to
recover the space.
Support
Sun Microsystems has support options available for the Solaris
Operating Environment, which now encompass the GNOME 2.0 Desktop.
See the GNOME 2.0
support page for more details.
Source Code Availability
The source code for the GNOME Desktop can be found on a public
CVS server at
pserver:anonymous@host131.cobalt.com:/cvs/sun-gnome.
XScreensaver sources, including portions included with GNOME 2.0
and covered by GPL, are available for download at http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/.
Downloading the GNOME 2.0 Desktop Software
Note that root access to your system is required to install the
software. See the Installation Instructions
document for the steps required to install the software.
Important. We have just become
aware of a security vulnerability in the GNOME Print Manager which
could allow unauthorized reading of files. To resolve this issue,
after installation of GNOME 2.0, execute the following command (as
root user):
Doing this will prevent you from inspecting the contents of the
GNOME print queue. We will soon supply a patch to restore this
functionality. Please monitor our Patches & Support page
to learn about all GNOME-related patches available from Sun.
Note: The GNOME 2.0 Desktop software is available in
English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified
Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Brazilian
Portuguese, Polish, and Russian. Follow the instructions you will
see after clicking the Download Now links below in order to select
and install the specific language(s) you desire.
Please extract the preceeding localized components in a
different directory from where the English GNOME software is
downloaded. Localized components will overwrite existing English
install/remove scripts when the downloaded tar file is extracted in
same directory.
Operating System
Download Here
GNOME 2.0 Desktop for the Solaris 8 Operating
Environment,
SPARC Architecture Edition
