Solaris Express comes with a large collection of FOSS tools bundled into the DVD. These are mostly kept up-to-date. A recent build of Solaris Express comes with the following list of major software, which is by no means complete.
Some bundled FOSS tools from Sun:
•Core OpenSolaris (OSlNet Consolidation)
•Java and a plethora of Java software like etbeans, Tomcat, JAX-RPC, ANT, JavaDB and much more
•Network storage modules like iSCSI, Fibre Channel support
•Sun Math library and make tools
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•Sun Medialib
•Caiman Installer
•Sun StorageTek availability suite
•Libmicro - portable micro benchmarks
•Filebench - a file system benchmarking suit Some bundled third-party FOSS tools:
•GNOME with Java bindings, accessibility, TTS and the full G OME applications suite
•Evolution, firefox, Thunderbird, The GIMP, Gimpprint, ION
•Ksh93, Bash, Tcsh, Zsh, BerkeleyDB, GNU binutils, Bison, Bzip2, Gzip
•Xorg with DRI support for Intel cards, vidia native accelerated driver
•Foomatic, FLAC, Flex, Freetype2, RealPlayer 10, GCC, gDesklets
•GNU TLS, Portions of GNU coreutils, Speex, Ghostscript
•Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) used to easily manage removable devices
•ImageMagik, various image format support libraries, Libexif, Xft
•Gcrypt, GnuPG, Popt, Librsvg, Ogg/Theora support, SASL
•OpenSSL with support for OpenSolaris Kernel Crypto Framework
LDAP support, XMLlXSL support, OpenJade, Mercurial, SVN
•MySQL, PostgreSQL with JDBC, TcVTk and Perl support
•Quagga, rsync, Samba, Sendmail, OpenSSH derivative, BIND
•Webmin, wget, XscreenSaver, Info-ZIP

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However, the point is that Solaris Express is Sun's distro of OpenSolaris and is not redistributable in its current form, since it includes about 15 per cent of proprietary tools like a few third-party device drivers, CDE, Motif, some fonts and i18n tools, and WBEM. The amount of the non-free software, however, is diminishing day by day. For example, CDE and Motif are on the E01 (end of life) path and will be removed very soon; drivers are being replaced by open source versions, even as SUN is working with third-party vendors to get their drivers open sourced. There is a project on OpenSolaris.org called Project Emancipation, which is working to replace the non-free i18n software with FOSS equivalents.

Sun is now working with the community to create a 100 per cent FOSS distro of OpenSolaris called Project Indiana, with emphasis on usability, ease of installation and community participation. The aims and goals of the project are similar to Ubuntu, for example. In addition, Indiana is supposed to form the reference base for other community-derived OpenSolaris distros like BeleniX, SchilliX, Nexenta, et ai, to leverage from. Readers are encouraged to participate in the development of Indiana and/or one of the other community-derived distros.