Fedora Linux

Chapter 1. Quick Start: Installing Fedora Fedora is a powerful, fast-changing, freely available operating system. It can be used as a productive desktop or server environment, or it can be used to learn about Linux and experim...

Chapter 2. Using Fedora on Your Desktop Fedora Linux provides a solid desktop computing environmentincluding a graphical user interface, communication tools, and office applicationsthat goes well beyond the traditional definit...

Chapter 3. Using Fedora on Your Notebook Notebook systems are becoming more like desktop systems with each generation, and many notebooks have CPU, memory, disk, and video capabilities that make them true desktop replacements....

Chapter 4. Basic System Management In order to maintain your system effectively, it's necessary to learn some basic system management skills. This chapter covers these essential skills. With a small investment in time, y...

Chapter 5. Package Management One of the advantages of Fedora is the huge amount of software available for it. Finding, installing, updating, and removing this software can be a daunting task, simply due to the amount of softw...

Chapter 6. Storage Administration Data storage is a critical part of computing. Fedora includes some powerful facilities for managing your data storage. These tools enable you to build high-availability, fault-tolerant storage...

Chapter 7. Network Services Fedora, like most Linux and Unix systems, makes no distinction between server and client systems. In fact, many Fedora systems participate in both roles, both serving and consuming information....

Chapter 8. Securing Your System System security maintenance is an essential task when running a computer, but it's never been particularly glamorous or fun. The basic goal of system security is to ensure that the system provid...

Chapter 9. The Fedora Community Despite the fact that it is supported and heavily financed by Red Hat, Fedora is truly a community project with a global scope. Effectively participating in that community is an important part o...

Chapter 10. Advanced Installation There are thousands of different computer configurations, and thousands of different ways in which computers are used. The Fedora installer, Anaconda, is up to the challenge: although the defa...