Applications

Desktop

For VLC and Goggles, ensure that you have added the LifeWithSolaris repository (otherwise check below)

• OpenOffice Just type in pfexec pkg install openoffice
• VLC MediaPlayer Just type in pfexec pkg install LWSvlc
• Goggles DVD player Just type in pfexec pkg install LWSgoggles
• RealPlayer for OpenSolaris and Solaris 10.
• Adobe Flash Player 9
• Video Broadcast Server from Wowza Media
• Songbird iPod plugin not yet available for OpenSolaris
• mindterm a cool Java based SSH client client with fancy tunneling and file transfer features from AppGate's.

Developers

• Webstack (Apache Mysql PHP runtime only) Just type in pfexec pkg install amp
• Webstack dev (Apache Mysql PHP dev. environment) Just type in pfexec pkg install ampdev
• Web Stack Tools and UI Just type in pfexec pkg install webstackui
• NetBeans 6.1 Just type in pfexec pkg install netbeans
• Eclipse Just type in pfexec pkg install eclipse
• Sun Studio Express 5/08 Just type in pfexec pkg install sunstudioexpress
• gcc Just type in pfexec pkg install SUNWgcc
• Sun HPC Cluster Tools 7.1 Just type in pfexec pkg install clustertools
• The Tools covers compilers, source code management, and tools used in software construction in OpenSolaris generally.
• MySQL Just type in pfexec pkg install SUNWmysql5
• GlassFish Just type in pfexec pkg install glassfishv2
• xVM VirtualBox Virtualisation for Desktops

Games, check the full list

• Westnoth
• Freeciv
• Gnuchess
• BZflag
• PRBoom
• Angband
• Nethack
• xboing
• neverball
• Shisen for Java
• Jake2 for Java
• FlightGear
• GL-117

Many package repositories are also providing packages via IPS, that you can "browse" through your package manager, here are a few:

• contrib: Just type in pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib/ contrib
• extra: go to http://pkg.sun.com/register and follow the procedure
• Blastwave: Just type in pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://blastwave.network.com:10000 blastwave
• Sunfreeware: Just type in pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000 sunfreeware
• LifewithSolaris: Just type in pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.lifewithsolaris.jp:10000 lifewithsolaris.jp if you need Multimedia players, check this site
• HomeUnix: just type in pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://ips.homeunix.com:10000 HomeUnix