How to access the GUI desktop environment on a Solaris 11 SPARC server from Windows, MAC, Solaris or Linux desktop computer. As most of the time SPARC based servers are installed using the Oracle Solaris 11 Text Installer (installing the solaris-large-server group of software packages), the desktop environment is not installed (mostly to keep the system lightweight) . So the only option for connecting remotely to the server is with an SSH client and a command line interface (Known as Terminal). Most widely used software to connect to a command line is Putty. For beginners , who haven’t worked on any unix/linux system , it takes time to adjust to the commands and syntax of terminals (The so called black screen). Installation Overview To accomplish our task we will follow these three steps: 1. Install the Gnome desktop environment on our SPARC server. Note – If we use the text installation method, the Oracle Solaris Desktop package (solar...
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