I'm an experience Solaris sysadmin, but I haven't used a current version on the 
desktop. I'm trying to figure out what software to use.

I've tried nextenta. It works pretty well, but I really want Solaris, not Linux 
on a Solaris kernel.

The best option seemed to be Solaris Express. However it doesn't seem to be a 
complete enviornment. I've used packages from Sun Freeware with it without 
problems. But a few things I want aren't there. I had hoped to use Blastwave, 
but when I loaded Scribus from there, it messed things up badly enough that I 
had to reinstall. I see that Blastwave doesn't support Solaris Express, so that 
looks like an unsafe source.

At the very least I'd like a development environment. I'm thinking of gcc 
(which one?) from Sunfreeware. Is that the right choice?

Are there other places I should look?

I'm a bit surprised not to see an FAQ on this topic. There are lots of pointers 
to Solaris Express on this site, but nothing on software to use with it.
 
 
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