Official Fedora Companion: Your Guide to the Fedora Project

• 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

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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