Tweaking Solaris
From Genunix
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Linux For You, May 2007 Edition: Solaris Express DVD
Known Issues
Installer hangs after entering 'root' password
During the installation of SXDE 3/07 (The DVD shipped with "Linux for You", May 2007 edition), the installer might appear to hang after you type the 'root' password and click Next (LFY Article Step 8)
This happens if you choose any Non-US timezone (in LFY Article Step 7). The bug was subsequently found and fixed. It is officially documented here
The workaround is to use some US timezone and avoid all Non-US timezones (in Step 7 of the installation). E.g. Choose "Americas -> United States -> Central Time". After your installation is successful, boot to your installed Solaris instance, run the sys-unconfig command as 'root' user and reboot, to change the Time-Zone to whatever is appropriate.
Extra Software
You can get a lot of extra software for OpenSolaris from Blastwave or Sunfreeware or pkgsrc. Blastwave is probably the easiest of the three. It has a script called pkg-get that makes installing software as simple as
$ pkg-get install "MyFavoriteSoftware"
It automatically downloads the necessary packages and dependencies and installs them all under the /opt/csw directory.
Games
These are games known to work on OpenSolaris.
* Quake2 * Wesnoth * BZFlag * Prboom * Neverball * Enigma * Nethack * Armagetron
Movie Players
These are media players known to work on OpenSolaris.
* MPlayer/GMplayer * VLC Media Player * Ogle/Goggles * Xine
Music Players
These are music players known to work on OpenSolaris.
* RhythmBox * XMMS
CD/DVD Ripping
These are ripping tools known to work on OpenSolaris.
* Grip * cdrtools
CD/DVD Burning
These are CD/DVD recording tools known to work on OpenSolaris.
* CDRecord * CDRW * X-CDRoast * Graveman
P2P Clients
These are P2P clients known to work on OpenSolaris.
* Azereus * MLDonkey * LimeWire * GTK-Gnutella
Eye Candy
OpenSolaris distributions typically ship with Gnome, KDE or Xfce. You can find excellent Themes, Wallpapers, Icons etc. for these Desktops from these sites
* GNOME/JDS - http://www.gnome-look.org/ * KDE - http://www.kde-look.org/ * Xfce - http://www.xfce-look.org/ * Compiz for Solaris - http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/compiz_0_5_0_packages
