Official Fedora Companion: Your Guide to the Fedora Project - Softcover

Petreley, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764558366 ISBN 13: 9780764558368

Publisher: *Red Hat, 2004

Synopsis

• Linux guru Nick Petreley demystifies the most powerful features of Fedora, the new Linux operating system from Red Hat
• The book is tailored for new users and people upgrading from previous Red Hat versions
• Cuts through technical jargon with a concise, friendly approach and offers invaluable insider tips that enable users to get up and running fast with Fedora
• Features step-by-step guidance to help readers to use and customize the friendly graphical Bluecurve desktop; get online with instant messaging, e-mail and a favorite browser; create personal audio and data CD-ROMs; and get started with the OpenOffice office productivity suite
• Includes essential security tips and all the basic configuration details for networks, firewalls, users, and printers
• Two CD-ROMs include Red Hat's new personal edition distribution known as Fedora

Copyright © 2004 by Red Hat, Inc. Material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, V1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/).

About this title

About the Author

Nick Petreley (Kansas City, MO) is the founding editor of LinuxWorld magazine, helped establish LinuxWorld Expo, created and first hosted the Golden Penguin Bowl keynote quiz show for the Expo, and is now the Linux analyst for Evans Data Corporation and founding editor of VarLinux.org. He was one of the first journalists to write about Linux, and Red Hat's own founder Bob Young credits Nicholas as a major force behind making the current popularity of Linux possible.

Contributors from the Red Hat Press Documentation Team: Tammy Fox, John Ha, Sandra A. Moore

From the Back Cover

Red Hat and the Linux community have done the work – you just install Fedora

Red Hat has collected everything you need to install and configure Fedora and start participating in this brand-new, community-driven project. There’s no downloading, no looking for documentation, no wondering. Instead, you get official information from the experts at Red Hat, installation and troubleshooting advice, dozens of applications, security tips, and more, along with the exclusive Fedora distribution on two CD-ROMs.

Fedora makes it easy for you to

• Customize the friendly graphical Bluecurve desktop
• Install a browser, get online, and use email and instant messaging
• Create personal audio and data CD-ROMs
• Start using the OpenOffice.org desktop tools
• Configure networks, firewalls, and printers
• Set up appropriate security
• Access and use shell prompts and manage users
• Contribute to the Fedora open source project

Economical!
The Fedora distribution on CD-ROM, plus detailed installation and configuration instructions, troubleshooting help, and more–at one extremely low price!

Loaded!
Feature-packed two-CD distribution includes Bluecurve desktop, instant messaging, email and browser applications, OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite, and dozens more tools.

More online!
Complete installation advice, including all options; Linux for laptops; using the file system, GIMP, and the X Window System; updating; the boot process; and much more at www.wiley.com/compbooks/petreley

TWO CD-ROMS INCLUDE

• Linux^TM kernel, GNU C compiler, and Bluecurve^TM desktop
• Samba Windows file/ print sharing and CUPS print service
• Apache Web server, Sendmail mail server, and BIND DNS server
• OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite

Edition details

• Publisher: *Red Hat
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764558366
• ISBN 13: 9780764558368
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280