Christopher Negus and Eric Foster-Johnson Publish Web pages and documents Launch file, printer, Web, and login services Play music, video, and games Negus Foster-Johnson The book you need to succeed! DVD Includes • Official Fedora 10 installation • Over 4GB of official Fedora software CD-ROM Includes • Official Fedora 10 KDE Live CD • Installable Fedora 10 desktop system Value-Packed DVD and CD-ROM Fedora ® 10 and Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ® Fedora ® 10 and Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ® More than a quarter of a million copies sold in previous editions! What’s on the DVD and CD-ROM? Official Fedora 10 install DVD Official Fedora 10 KDE desktop live/install CD System Requirements: Please see the Preface and Appendix A for details and complete system requirements. New in Fedora 10: • Improved printing support • New, faster graphical startup • Time-based PulseAudio sound system features • Major RPM package management upgrade • One Laptop Per Child (Sugar) desktop option • Enhanced Webcam support Shelving Category: COMPUTERS/Operating Systems/ Linux Reader Level: Beginning to Advanced $59.99 USA $65.99 Canada www.wiley.com/go/fedora10bible Catch the latest Linux technology with Fedora 10 When the free software world improves its offerings, you can be among the first to try them using Fedora. As the basis for the popular enterprise-quality Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora can be your stepping stone to a lucrative career with Linux. Install, configure, and use Fedora as anything from a desktop to an Internet server. Use this book as a guide to installing and running Fedora from the included DVD and live CD. Play games on the desktop or against others on the Internet Create documents to publish in hard copy or on theWeb Configure and start services to run your own Web server Set up Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux to: • Try new or improved features such as FirstAidKit, ext4 file systems, fast start-up, and connection sharing • Navigate your computer with GNOME ® , KDE ® , Xfce, or Online Desktops • Manage and use documents, spreadsheets, presentations, music, and images • Connect easily to your network with NetworkManager • Draw from massive online Fedora and third-party software repositories • Build an Internet server with e-mail, Web, DNS, FTP, and database services www.it-ebooks.info Fedora 10 Quick Install Follow these steps to install Fedora 10 from the CD or DVD included with this book. (See Chapter 2.) For non-x86 PCs, download PPC or x86_64 Fedora software from http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html. 1. Get Media: Insert the Fedora 10 CD or DVD into your computer’s drive. 2. Reboot: Reboot your computer. 3. Start Install: To start the install: • For the DVD, press Enter to begin the installation. • For the live CD, press Enter to boot the live CD. After the desktop appears, select the install icon from the desktop. The complete CD installs to hard disk. 4. Media Check: For the DVD, select media check to be sure it is not damaged or corrupted. 5. Language Selection: Choose the installation language (you can add other languages later). 6. Keyboard Configuration: Choose your keyboard type. 7. Install or Upgrade: With an earlier Fedora version installed, you can choose Upgrade (upgrade your system without losing data). Otherwise, continue with a new installation. 8. Network Configuration: Set up your LAN connection (not dial-up). You typically select DHCP to have your network addresses assigned automatically. Or, you can manually enter your computer’s address information. 9. Time Zone Selection: Identify the time zone in which you are located. 10. Set Root Password: Add the root user account password. 11. Disk Partitioning Setup: Choose to install Fedora on existing Linux partitions, existing free space, or the entire hard disk (erasing everything). See Chapter 5 before proceeding, if you are not sure which option to choose. 12. Boot Loader Configuration: Add the GRUB boot manager to control the boot process. Install the boot loader to your hard disk’s master boot record if no other operating system is installed. 13. Choose Software: Select one or more of the preset install classes, including Office and Productivity, Software Development, and Web Server. Select “Customize now” to go through the software packages in more detail. Add other software repositories to install packages outside Fedora. 14. Installation Categories: If you selected “Customize now,” go through each category to select install groups. Then select the Optional packages button to add or subtract pack- ages from each group. 15. About to Install: To this point, you can quit the install process without having written anything to disk. When you select Next, the disk is formatted (as you chose) and selected packages are installed. When installation is done, remove the Fedora DVD or CD and click Exit to reboot your computer. During the first boot, the Fedora Setup Agent runs to configure some basic settings. After that, log in and begin using Fedora! First try it out, then Install Fedora 10 Linux from CD or DVD Using the DVD and CD that come with this book, you have a range of options for starting out with Fedora 10 Linux. Everything you need to install 4GB of Fedora 10 software is included on the DVD. Use the CD to try out a live version of Fedora before installing it. Then install the contents of that CD to your hard drive when you are ready. Fedora 10 Software Repository on DVD! This DVD contains the Fedora 10 installer and software repository, with about 4GB of compressed software. Fedora Live CD! The Fedora 10 KDE Live CD included with this book lets you: • Try a Fedora 10 desktop system before installing it. Insert the CD, reboot, and press Enter. From the full-featured Fedora KDE desktop, you can try games, office applications, system tools, and other features. • Install a Fedora 10 desktop system to hard disk. The contents of the live CD can be installed to your hard disk to give you a permanent Fedora installation. Huge set of software development tools! Dozens of server and admin packages too! Authoring & Publishing Editors Create and layout documents Edit code and text files Interactive learning games Math and science apps Card, shooter, and thinking games Email, browser and messaging Image, animation and camera apps Document, spreadsheet and drawing apps Music, video and TV apps Text-based Web, email, and file xfer Education Engineering/ Scientific Games Graphics Office Apps Sound and Video Text-based Internet Graphical Internet Choose the software you want from these application groups www.it-ebooks.info Ten cool things to do with Fedora 10 Linux Just because Fedora is a serious operating system doesn't mean it can't be fun too. Here is a list of ten fun and useful things to do with Fedora. 1. Set Up a Personal Online Desktop: Use the GNOME Online Desktop to connect your desktop to your friends, multimedia content, and online applications from Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, and others. Click right on the desktop to immediately get you all your favorite content. (See Chapter 3.) 2. Launch the new KDE 4 Plasma Desktop: The next generation KDE desktop lets you add widgets, called plasmoids, to multiple places on your desktop. Find files, Web pages or other items quickly with new search tools. (See Chapter 3.) 3. Play Commercial Audio/Video: Licensing restrictions keep many popular codecs from inclusion with Fedora. Using third-party repositories with Fedora, you grab the codecs you need to play Windows Media (Audio, Video and MMS), MP3 audio, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video decoding, and others. (See Chapter 8.) 4. Manage music collections: Launch Rhythmbox to gather, organize, and play music from your hard disk, CDs, or network file systems. You can even select from thousands of free songs from Magnatune and Jamendo online music services. (See Chapter 8.) 5. Publish your ideas::Choose from dozens of publishing tools to create documents (OpenOffice.org Writer), presentations (OpenOffice.org Impress) hard-copy page layouts (Scribus), and vector graphics (Inkscape). Then publish your work on paper or the Web. (See Chapter 6.) 6. Share an Internet connection: Fedora can be set up as a router and a firewall. With a home or small office LAN set-up, you can use Fedora to share an Internet connection among multiple Linux, Windows, or Mac systems. Then set up a firewall in Fedora to protect your LAN from intruders. (See Chapters 14, 15, and 16.) 7. Play free games: As always, Fedora includes dozens of simple card games and board games. The Fedora repository, includes a ton of games, including fun first-person shooter games such as Doom, strategy games such as fantasy game Wesnoth, and online battle games such as BZFlag. (See Chapter 7.) 8. Run Windows applications: By adding the wine software packages, you can run many Windows applications right from a Fedora desktop. (See Chapter 5.) 9. Create an Internet server: Learn to configure a Web server (Chapter 21), FTP server (Chapter 20) and a mail server (Chapter 19). Then gather that knowledge to create your own public Internet server (Chapter 25). Your server can run from your home Internet connection. 10. Share over the Internet: Share your personal videos, software, or other content with friends over the Internet, using Bittorrent swarming network transfer software. While you’re at it, instant message your thoughts using Pidgin, video-conference your looks (Ekiga), and e-mail your party invitations (Evolution). 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This book would never have happened without her love and support. –Christopher Negus To Katya and Nalana. –Eric Foster-Johnson www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info [...]... 5 Linux s Roots in UNIX 6 What Is an Operating System? 7 Common Linux Features 8 Primary Advantages of Linux 10 What Are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora? 11 Red Hat forms the Fedora Project 11 Red Hat shifts to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 14 Choosing between Fedora and Enterprise 14 Why Choose Fedora or Red. .. Red Hat Linux Bible, which because of the name changes of Red Hat s Linux projects has evolved into the book you are holding Most recently, Chris co-authored four books in the Linux Toolbox series: Fedora Linux Toolbox, Ubuntu Linux Toolbox, SUSE Linux Toolbox, and BSD UNIX Toolbox (Wiley Publishing) Before that, Chris authored Linux Bible 2008 Edition and co-wrote Linux Troubleshooting Bible and Linux. .. • Linux Toys II — If you’re looking for something fun to do with Linux, this book contains nine fun projects you can build with a PC and open source software Chris Negus www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info Contents Part I: Getting Started in Fedora and RHEL Chapter 1: An Overview of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Introducing Fedora 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 What Is Linux? ... this and earlier editions of Red Hat Linux Bible Go out and become a force for Linux in your work, home, and community If you feel like expanding your Linux horizons, try some of these other books I’ve written: • Linux Bible 2009 Edition — Contains 18 different bootable and installable Linux distributions on DVD and CD, along with descriptions characterizing those and other popular and interesting Linux. .. Prentice Hall, Chris authored Live Linux CDs and co-authored the Official Damn Small Linux Book, as part of the Negus Live Linux Series Today, Chris works as a Linux instructor for Red Hat, Inc and has achieved certification as a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) At home, Chris enjoys spending time with his wife, Sheree, and his boys, Caleb and Seth His hobbies include soccer, singing, and exercising with... programmer who works daily with Linux, Unix, and Windows and other operating systems By day, he writes enterprise Java software for ObjectPartners, a Minnesota consulting firm He has authored and co-authored a number of Linux and Unix titles including Red Hat RPM Guide, Teach Yourself Linux, Teach Yourself Unix and Perl Modules www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info Credits Acquisitions Editor Jenny... distributions • Fedora Linux Toolbox with François Caen — Includes 100 0+ command lines to help Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS power users get the most out of Linux To try other similar distributions, check out Ubuntu Linux Toolbox, SUSE Linux Toolbox and BSD UNIX Toolbox by the same authors • Linux Troubleshooting Bible with Thomas Weeks — Goes beyond this book to help you safely deploy and troubleshoot Linux systems... Internet, and (most recently) Linux systems for more than two decades During that time, Chris worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, UNIX System Laboratories, and Novell, helping to develop the UNIX operating system Features from many of the UNIX projects Chris worked on at AT&T have found their way into Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and other Linux systems Chris is the author of all editions of what started... Selecting mail and printing alternatives 454 Using mail alternatives 455 www.it-ebooks.info Contents xxv Using Security Enhanced Linux 455 Understanding Security Enhanced Linux 456 Types and roles in SELinux 456 Users in SELinux 457 Policies in SELinux 457 Tools in SELinux 458 Using SELinux in Fedora and RHEL... Applications and System menus 100 Adding an applet 101 Adding another panel 102 Adding an application launcher 102 Adding a drawer 103 Changing panel properties 103 Using the Nautilus file manager 104 Changing GNOME preferences 107 Managing removable media 108 Trying other GNOME applications 109 . in Fedora and RHEL Chapter 1: An Overview of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Introducing Fedora 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 What Is Linux? . desktop system Value-Packed DVD and CD-ROM Fedora ® 10 and Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ® Fedora ® 10 and Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ® More than a quarter