Beginning Fedora Desktop

  • Authors
  • Richard Petersen
Book

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxv
    PDF

  2. Getting Started

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
      PDF
    2. Fedora 18 Introduction
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 3-13
    3. Installation and Upgrade
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 15-45
    4. Usage Basics: Login, Desktop, and Help
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 47-87
    5. Installing and Updating Software: YUM, PackageKit, and RPM
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 89-126

  3. Applications

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 127-127
      PDF
    2. Office Applications and Editors
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 129-145
    3. Graphics and Multimedia
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 147-179
    4. Mail (E-Mail) and News
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 181-195
    5. Internet Applications: Web and FTP
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 197-217
    6. Social Networking: Microblogging, IM, VoIP, and Social Desktop
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 219-227

  4. Desktops

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 229-229
      PDF
    2. GNOME 3
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 231-256
    3. The K Desktop Environment: KDE
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 257-304
    4. Shells
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 305-334
    5. Additional Desktops
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 335-351

  5. Administration

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 353-353
      PDF
    2. Fedora System Tools
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 355-375
    3. System Administration
      Richard Petersen
      Pages 377-414

About this book

Introduction

Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 18 Edition is a complete guide to using the Fedora 18 Desktop Linux release as your daily driver for mail, productivity, social networking, and more. Author and Linux expert Richard Petersen delves into the operating system as a whole and offers you a complete treatment of Fedora 18 Desktop installation, configuration, and use.

You'll discover how to install Fedora 18 Desktop on any hardware, learn which applications perform which functions, how to manage software updates, tips and tricks for the GNOME 3 and KDE desktops, useful shell commands, and both the Fedora administration and network tools. 

Get the most out of Fedora 18 Desktop -- including free Office suites, editors, e-book readers, music and video applications and codecs, email clients, Web and FTP browsers, microblogging and IM applications -- with a copy of Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 18 Edition at your side.

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