- Complete guide to using Fedora as your daily driver for mail, productivity, social networking, and more
- Written by Richard Petersen, Linux expert and author of multiple programming books
- Completely updated for the most recent Fedora Desktop Linux release, Fedora 28
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- About this book
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Get the most out of Fedora 28 Desktop, including free Office suites, editors, e-book readers, music and video applications. In addition to those features, you’ll also work with codecs, email clients, web browsers, FTP and BitTorrent clients, VoIP clients, and IM applications. The major Fedora 28 desktop spins are covered in detail, including the Plasma desktop (KDE), Cinnamon, Mate-Compiz, LXDE, Xfce, and LXQT.
This is your complete guide to using the Fedora 28 Desktop Linux release as your daily driver for multimedia, productivity, social networking, 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 28 Desktop configuration and use.
With Beginning Fedora Desktop at your side, you’ll discover how to install and update the Fedora 28 Desktop, as well as access various software repositories. You’ll also learn which applications perform which functions, how to manage software, use of the desktop configuration tools, useful shell commands, and both the system administration and network tools.
What You'll Learn
- Review the available desktop choices, including GNOME, KDE, and alternative desktops
- Administer your system, add users, manage printers and perform backups
- Configure network connections and firewalls with FirewallD
- Access network resources with Samba
Who This Book Is For
Novice to intermediate users who are looking to install Fedora 20 as their primary computing environment.
- Review the available desktop choices, including GNOME, KDE, and alternative desktops
- About the authors
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Richard Petersen holds an M.L.I.S. in library and information studies (UC Berkeley). He is the author of numerous books on C programming, UNIX, and Linux. His research background includes artificial intelligence applications to information retrieval. He has taught computer science programming and Unix at UC Berkeley.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Fedora 28 Introduction
Pages 3-16
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Installation and Upgrade
Pages 17-41
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Usage Basics: Login, Desktop, and Help
Pages 43-113
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Installing and Updating Software: DNF, GNOME Software, Packages, DnfDragora, and RPM
Pages 115-168
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Office Applications, Email, Editors, and Databases
Pages 171-210
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Beginning Fedora Desktop
- Book Subtitle
- Fedora 28 Edition
- Authors
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- Richard Petersen
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Apress
- Copyright Holder
- Richard Petersen
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4842-3882-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4842-3882-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4842-3881-3
- Edition Number
- 3
- Number of Pages
- XXV, 595
- Number of Illustrations
- 382 b/w illustrations
- Topics
