Newbie's Questions about Solaris
 

I am new to Opensolaris,
1) does it have DVD image that contain many packages including openoffice? where to download? I only have live CD.
2) its package manager can update latest version of software, e.g. firefox ?
3) does it play MP3?

boot into the opensolaris 2009.06 live CD, there is no openoffice.
i hope there is DVD version to include all important softwares.

one more thing, does solaris support chinese character input?

please help.

Normally, you install packages from the network through the package manager.
You can also download OpenSolaris 2009.06 full repository from genunix.org. See:
http://www.genunix.org/dist/indiana/README.osol-repo
Unlikely, OpenSolaris as a distribution is discontinued.
Likely after you install third party codecs.

Possibly but I have no idea how to check. You might have a look at this project.
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/...+input-method/

you said opensolaris was stopped? no more new version to be released?
the link
http://www.genunix.org/dist/indiana/README.osol-repo
does not provide direct link to download all packages.

i have a 2GB solaris 10 DVD,
does this DVD install most softwares?
including staroffice ?

The official successor is Solaris 11 Express. There are also forks and derived distributions like OpenIndiana, Schillix, Nexenta and others.
http://www.genunix.org/dist/indiana/?C=S;O=D

Yes, it installs staroffice.

osol-repo-0906-full.iso 22-Jul-2009 17:28 7.2G
[ ] osol-repo-0906-p01.iso 22-Jul-2009 17:12 3.6G
[ ] osol-repo-0906-p02.iso 22-Jul-2009 17:15 3.6G
[ ] osol-dev-127-x86.usb 13-Nov-2009 14:00 936M

may I know what are in the 7.2GB iso?
how to install solaris packages?
can i instruct the package manager to read from the DVD?

so it is better to install solaris 10 than opensolaris?

Solaris 10 was quite old OS,does it support latest graphics cards?
my notebook is intel GMAX3100, and my desktop is Nvidia 8400GS

the new solaris 11 is here
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/se...ads/index.html

Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 LiveCD for x86
The LiveCD provides administrators with an opportunity to explore the Oracle Solaris 11 Express environment without installing it on a system. The system boots off the media directly allowing administrators to start the installer should they choose to install it to a system.

Download Download x86 (687 MB)

I am not sure after booting into liveCD, on the desktop does it have an icon for installation onto HDD?
previous opensolaris has it.

The full OpenSolaris release repository.
Either from the command line or using the graphical package manager.
Hopefully.