The IRIX 6.5 Complementary Applications CD, February 2004, is a companion to IRIX 6.5.23 and the IRIX 6.5 Applications CD. This CD contains various desktop applications and products that are not installed by default.

IMPORTANT Complementary Applications CD NOTE:
Because the .related_dists file has been removed from the IRIX 6.5 Apps CD distribution, users may not be aware of the /CDROM/dist/dev and /CDROM/dist/extras directories. To access these use the "Open" option in Software Manager.

Product Additions and Revisions

• Common Desktop Environment, 5.3.3
• OpenOffice.org, 1.0.3.1a
• Netscape Navigator 4.8a (extras)
• Netscape Developer 4.8a (dev)

Product Removals

• Cosmo Create Authoring Environment, 1.0.3a
• IRIS InSight Dev, 5.2 (dev)
• IRIS Showcase 3.4.3a

  Important Notes About the Products

  • CDE 5.3.3
    The new release of CDE 5.3.3 is dependent on the updated version of ToolTalk that is included with IRIX 6.5.19 or later. ToolTalk patch 4915 was created that will allow this version of CDE to install on earlier versions of IRIX 6.5.X.
  • Netscape Communicator Client
    Netscape Communicator Client 4.8a is part of the default distribution on the other Applications CD. Customers who only use the browser functionality (and not the email, newsgroups, etc.) may prefer to install the Netscape Navigator Client (netscape_lite) 4.8a located on this Complementary Applications CD. From Software Manager, open /CDROM/dist/extras to install this product.

    Beginning with Netscape 4.8 the default browser is compiled N32 so older Third party Netscape plugins will not work with the new N32 browser. All plugins exist in N32 versions except the older Shockwave plugin. The O32 Netscape client s/w is no longer part of the distribution.

  Release Notes

  If you choose to read the release notes for products before installing new products, you can now view the release notes easily from Software Manager. From the desktop Toolchest choose System, then Software Manager. This will bring up the Software Manager window. Choose to Customize Installation by typing /CDROM/dist into the Available Software box. A list of products available for installation will come up. If the product name is highlighted (similar to an HTML link) then there are Release Notes available. Simply click on the link to bring up the Release Notes window.

  Product Support Information

  SGI provides a comprehensive product support maintenance programs for its products. For more information install the Welcome product from your IRIX 6.5 Overlay CDs and browse the Support and Services page. To purchase support, contact your local SGI sales office (see http://www.sgi.com/global/).

  SGI's Services & Support web page: http://www.sgi.com/support/
  SGI's Technical Assistance Center (US/Canada): 800-800-4SGI
  Technical Assistance outside of the US/Canada: http://www.sgi.com/global/

  Software License Agreement

  Packaged with your software is a separate sheet containing the Software License Agreement. Software in this release is provided to you solely under the terms and conditions of the Software License Agreement. Please take a few moments to review the Agreement.