Book description
"Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 20 Edition is a complete guide to using the Fedora 20 Desktop Linux release as your daily driver for multimedia, productivity, social networking, the GNOME 3 desktop, administrative tasks, and more. Author and Linux expert Richard Petersen delves into the operating system as a whole and offers you a complete treatment of Fedora 20 Desktop configuration and use.
You'll discover how to install and update the Fedora 20 Desktop, learn which applications perform which functions, how to manage software, use of the GNOME 3 and KDE desktop configuration tools, useful shell commands, and both the Fedora administration and network tools.
Get the most out of Fedora 20 Desktop -- including free Office suites, editors, e-book readers, music and video applications and codecs, email clients, Web browsers, FTP and BitTorrent clients, microblogging and IM applications -- with a copy of Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 20 Edition at your side.
"Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewers
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Fedora 20 Introduction
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Chapter 2: Installation and Upgrade
- Obtaining the DVDs
- Install Strategies: Making Use of Repositories
- Installation Issues
- Basic Install with Fedora Live Desktop DVD
- Quick Install with the Install DVD
- Installing Fedora Linux
- GNOME Initial Setup and GNOME Help
- Upgrading Fedora Linux
- Creating Boot Disks
- Booting in Rescue Mode
- Reinstalling the Bootloader
- Chapter 3: Usage Basics: Login, Desktop, and Help
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Chapter 4: Installing and Updating Software: YUM, GNOME Software, PackageKit, and RPM
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Software Repositories
- Fedora Software Repositories
- RPM Fusion
- Adobe and Livna
- Third-Party Linux Software Archives
- Updating Fedora: GNOME Software and Software Update
- Updating Fedora with GNOME Software Update
- Updating Fedora with Software Update (PackageKit)
- Update Preferences
- Update with the yum Command
- Automatic YUM Update with cron
- Presto: Efficient Updating with DeltaRPM Packages
- Installing Software Packages
- Using the RPM Fusion Repository with PackageKit
- YUM Extender: yumex
- Installing Packages with the yum Command
- Installing Some Popular Third-Party Software
- Using Repositories
- YUM Configuration
- Managing YUM Caches
- Manually Installing Packages with rpm
- Installing Source Code Applications
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Software Repositories
- Chapter 5: Office Applications and Editors
- Chapter 6: Graphics and Multimedia
- Chapter 7: Internet Applications: Web and FTP
- Chapter 8: Social Networking: Microblogging, IM, VoIP, and Social Desktop
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Chapter 9: GNOME 3
- The GNOME 3 Interface
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The GNOME Files File Manager
- Home Folder Subfolders
- File Manager Windows
- File Manager Sidebar
- Tabs
- Displaying Files and Folders
- Previews
- File Manager Tools and Pop-up Menus
- Navigating in the File Manager
- Managing Files and Folders
- File and Directory Properties
- File Manager Preferences
- File Manager As an FTP Browser
- File Manager Search
- GNOME Classic
- Chapter 10: The K Desktop Environment: KDE
- Chapter 11: Shells
- Chapter 12: Additional Desktops
- Chapter 13: Fedora System Tools
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Chapter 14: System Administration
- Fedora Administrative Tools
- Superuser Control: The Root User
- Authentication: authconfig-gtk
- Date and Time
- User Accounts: Users, System Settings
- Users and Groups Manager: system-config-users
- Display Configuration
- Bluetooth
- File System Access
- Automatic File System Mounts with /etc/fstab
- Editing Configuration Files Directly
- Backup Management: rsync, Déjà Dup, and Amanda
- Managing Services: systemd and service
- Chapter 15: Network Configuration
- Chapter 16: Printing
- Index
Product information
- Title: Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 20 Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781484200674
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