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Beginning Fedora Desktop

Fedora 20 Edition

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Fedora 20 Introduction

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 1-12
  3. Installation and Upgrade

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 13-42
  4. Usage Basics: Login, Desktop, and Help

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 43-94
  5. Office Applications and Editors

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 133-162
  6. Graphics and Multimedia

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 163-196
  7. Internet Applications: Web and FTP

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 197-218
  8. GNOME 3

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 231-262
  9. The K Desktop Environment: KDE

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 263-310
  10. Shells

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 311-340
  11. Additional Desktops

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 341-358
  12. Fedora System Tools

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 359-380
  13. System Administration

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 381-420
  14. Network Configuration

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 421-442
  15. Printing

    • Richard Petersen
    Pages 443-458
  16. Back Matter

    Pages 459-471

About this book

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.

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