Fedora Installation Workshop

Introduction to Fedora Project and Fedora

What Is Fedora Project ● Global partnership of FOSS community members ● Largely sponsored by Red Hat ● Infrastructure ● Resources ● Engineers ● Encourage collaboration and incubate innovative new FOSS technologies ● Drive development forward

Mission ● Lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community. ● The Fedora Project always tries to lead, not follow. ● The Fedora Project consistently seeks to create, improve, and spread free/libre code and content. ● The Fedora Project succeeds through shared action on the part of many people throughout our community.

Core Values ● Fedora Four Foundations ● Freedom ● Friends ● Features ● First

Our Community ● Around the world ● Work together for the advancement of Free Software and Free Culture ● Various groups ● Software Engineers, Artists, System Administrators, Web Designers, Writers, Speakers/Ambassadors, Translators ● Be a part of us!

Fedora Linux In simple terms, a Linux distribution developed under Fedora Project, following Fedora principles, by Fedora community

Workshop Scope ● Introduction on Fedora installation process through LiveCD ● Getting around the GNOME desktop environment in Fedora ● Adding and removing applications in Fedora from the Fedora repositories ● Installation of 3 rd party repository & enabling patented multimedia support in Fedora ● Using several Fedora specific utilities ● Quick http server using Apache

Installation from LiveCD ● What are LiveCDs ● Installing Fedora through LiveCD Anaconda ● Configuring the installation options ● Partitioning ● Boot loader ● Timezone ● Boot, Install, Reboot, done

GNOME Desktop ● Using the GNOME Menu and GNOME Panel ● Using the Nautilus File Manager ● Using the NetworkManager ● Using the GNOME Preferences menu applications

Package Manager ● Using PackageKit to ● Browse applications ● Add applications ● Remove applications ● Using YumEx to do the same as bove

3 rd Party Repositories ● RPMFusion ● Contains softwares illegal in the United States and countries which acknowledge software patents ● Software Patent issues – Multimedia decoders ● Highly recommended for Fedora users ● Contributors consist of people who contribute to mainstream Fedora ● Adobe Linux ● Closed source repository of several Adobe products (Flash player, Acrobat Reader, etc)

3 rd Party Repositories (Cont.) One WARNING, There are many other repositories out there However, avoid mixing conflicting 3 rd party repositories! You will not like the results

Unless probably you are someone who find pleasure in pain

Fedora System Tools ● System-Config-Users ● Add/Remove/Configure users ● System-Config-Firewall ● Set up iptables firewall ● System-Config-Language ● Change default language ● System-Config-Services ● Configure boot-up services ● System-Config-Time ● System-Config-Printer

Quick HTTP Server ● Install system-config-httpd ● Configure simple http server with per-user public_html directory

Fedora, RHEL, CentOS Relationship ● Fedora is the upstream of RHEL, RHEL is the upstream of CentOS ● CentOS is based on RHEL, RHEL is based on Fedora ● All three shares a very similar architecture, know one, chances are, you'll know all of them ● Fedora – rapid development, cutting edge softwares ● RHEL – commercial supported distribution by RH ● CentOS – RHEL, without the branding, without the support option, binary compatible with RHEL

Moving Forward

Now you've learned some basics in using Fedora desktop

Where to go next?

Like I was saying several times before

Google is your best friend

There are local communities which you can hang around with to learn more about Fedora

Or to ask for some support

But always remember, we are all humans

We are doing these voluntarily, under our free time

Don't abuse us too much (^-^)

And do pardon us if we made mistakes (which sometimes we did a lot of them)

Local Communities ● Fedora Malaysia ● ● #fedora-my at irc.freenode.net chat server ● Fedora-My-List mailing list at list list ● MyOSS ● ● #myoss at irc.freenode.net chat server

Upstream Community ● The best source is upstream ● Be involved in the mainline Fedora community ● #fedora at irc.freenode.net ● Fedora-list mailing list at ● ● Fedora Forum at ● Planet Fedora (collection of blogs of Fedora Contributors) at

A recommended reading before you start going to meet the online communities

While there are no stupid questions, there are smart questions

Geeks love smart questions, they are challenges to us, make us quite happy to help people with smart questions

Make us feel the effort and time spent are worthy

Therefore, read this: If you follow the guide truly, most of times you'll get better responses from the community ^-^

More reading materials ● Cathedral and the Bazaar ● bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ ● Linux is not Windows ● ● O'Reilly Open Books ● ● And like many geeks agreed : Read The Fine Manual – its very important, really, no joking

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