Fedora 7 Installation & HOWTO

Fedora 7 Overview
"Fedora (previously called Fedora Core) is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. It aims to be a complete, general-purpose operating system that contains only free and open source software.^[1]^[2] Fedora is derived from the original Red Hat Linux distribution, and it is intended to replace the consumer distributions of Red Hat Linux aimed towards home users."
(Wikipedia)

See the Fedora homepage for further details.

Fedora 7

Fedora 7 Systems Administration

F7 Systems Administration Overview
The Systems Administration Overview section covers two main topics:

1. Background Information & Purpose

2. Why Choose Fedora (Fedora vs. Ubuntu)

F7 Installation Notes
The Installation Notes cover three main topics:

1. Pre-Installation Tasks
2. Installation
3. Post-Installation Changes (Listed by Order of Importance)

F7 HOWTOs
The HOWTOs cover nine main topics, and a topic regarding preparation to install F8 (once it comes out):

1. General Setup for Installing Applications
2. Security (Listed by Order of Importance)
3. Network/Filesystem Services & Applications (Listed by Order of Importance)
4. E-Mail & Spam
5. Apache/MySQL/PHP Services & Applications (Listed by Order of Importance)
6. Enlightenment DR17 (E17)
7. Multimedia-Based Applications & Setup
8. Drawing & Image Manipulation Programs
9. Programing Applications & General Utilities

10. Preparing to Install Fedora 8

Table of Contents

Fedora 7 Systems Administration Overview,
Installation Notes, & HOWTOs

F7 Systems Administration Overview

1. Background Information & Purpose

2. Why Choose Fedora? (Fedora vs. Ubuntu)

F7 Installation Notes

1. Pre-Installation Tasks
     1.1 Partition Sizes
   1.2 Dual Boot Options

2. Installation
   2.1 Installation Procedure
2.2 First Boot

3. Post-Installation Changes
     3.1 sudo
   3.2 Shell Environment (tcsh)
3.3 .tcshrc Script
   3.4 Secure Shell (ssh & sshd)
   3.5 Services
   3.6 Updating the Database for mlocate
3.7 cpuspeed
   3.8 Boot Options
     3.9 beep (curses bell)

F7 HOWTOs

1. Setup for Installing Applications
   1.1 yum, yum-fastestmirror, yumex, & yum-utils
   1.2 Repositories & Updates

2. Security
   2.1 Firewall
   2.2 SELinux
   2.3 BlockHosts
   2.4 RKhunter

3. Network/Filesystem Services & Applications
   3.1 Networking
3.2 Wireless (with WPA/WP2 Encryption)
   3.3 Network File System (NFS)
   3.4 Samba Server for Windows
   3.5 NTFS for Windows Partitions
   3.6 Automated Backups & Scripting with rsync
   3.7 Network Printing with CUPS
   3.8 Scanning with xsane

4. E-Mail & Spam
   4.1 sendmail Configuration
   4.2 fetchmail Configuration
   4.3 spambayes
4.4 dovecot

F7 HOWTOs (continued)

5. Apache/MySQL/PHP Services & Applications
   5.1 Apache Web Server
   5.2 MySQL Server
   5.3 phpMyAdmin
   5.4 MediaWiki
   5.5 phpBB
5.6 Joomla

6. Enlightenment DR17 (E17)
   6.1 E17 Installation
   6.2 E17 Entrance Setup
   6.3 E17 General Configuration
   6.4 E17 Animated Backgrounds

7. Multimedia-Based Applications & Setup
   7.1 Acrobat Reader & Plugin
7.2 BitTorrent & Azureus
7.3 Burning CD/DVDs from the Command Prompt
   7.4 Flash Plugin
7.5 Google Earth
   7.6 Java
   7.7 Mplayer, Mplayerplug-in, & .xpi
   7.8 MSFonts
   7.9 Nvidia Driver
   7.10 RealPlayer
7.11 Skype
   7.12 xmms & audacious (with mp3 plugin)

8. Drawing & Image Manipulation Programs
8.1 Google Picasa
   8.2 gv
   8.3 IVTools
   8.4 jpeg2ps
8.5 pdftk
   8.6 pngout
   8.7 Tgif
   8.8 xv

9. Programing Applications & General Utilities
   9.1 AUCTeX
9.2 gkrellm
   9.2 gparted & qtparted
   9.3 IDL
9.4 LaTeX Configuration & TeTeX Extras
   9.5 nautilus
   9.6 Nvu/KompoZer
   9.7 Pine
   9.8 xosview
   9.9 Other Applications

10. Preparing to Install Fedora 8

Additional Fedora Systems Administration Pages
Fedora Core 5 Installation Notes and HOWTOs
Fedora Core 6 Installation Notes and HOWTOs
Fedora 8 Installation Notes and HOWTOs
Fedora 9 Installation Notes and HOWTOs