Fedora 8 Installation & HOWTO

Fedora 8 Overview

Fedora (previously called Fedora Core) is an RPM-based, general purpose Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora's mission statement is: "Fedora is about the rapid progress of Free and Open Source software."^[1] One of Fedora's main objectives is to not only contain free and open source software, but also to be on the leading edge of such technologies.^[1]^[2]

(Wikipedia)

See the Fedora homepage for further details.

Fedora 8

Fedora 8 Systems Administration

Fedora 8 simply rocks. It contains the new tickless 2.6.23 version of the kernel, the new CFS process scheduler (Completely Fair Scheduler) that put everyone in such a hussy, improved memory management, the new Pulse Audio Linux Sound System, and an ability to create different live images — one of which allows you to boot from a USB drive. In terms of use, if just feels snappy, even when running Gnome (I cannot believe that I just wrote that). And it feels even more polished than Fedora 7 — which I already thought was an impressive distribution based upon their ability to seamlessly merge Fedora Core and Fedora Extras into "Fedora". Oh, and their default "Infinity" background that changes color based upon the time of day is made of pure WIN. Fedora is headed in exactly the right direction, and the future looks bright. If you have thought about upgrading for a while, but have been hesitant, now is definitely the time to do so.

F8 Systems Administration Overview

1. Background Information & Purpose
2. Why Choose Fedora (Fedora vs. Ubuntu)

F8 Kriehn Repository

1. Professor Kriehn's Fedora Repository

F8 Installation Notes

1. Pre-Installation Tasks
2. Installation
3. Post-Installation Changes

F8 HOWTOs

1. Internet Access
2. Security
3. Setup for Installing Applications
4. Network/Filesystem Services & Applications
5. E-Mail & Spam
6. Apache/MySQL/PHP Services & Applications
7. Hosting a Yum Repository
8. Enlightenment DR17 (E17)
9. Gnome Applications & Settings
10. Laptop & General Settings
11. Google Applications
12. Multimedia-Based Applications & Setup
13. Drawing & Image Manipulation Programs
14. Programming Applications
15. General Utilities

F8 Additional References

1. Reference List

Looking Torward Fedora 9

1. Preparing to Install Fedora 9

Table of Contents

Fedora 8 Systems Administration Overview,
Installation Notes, & HOWTOs

F8 Systems Administration Overview

1. Background Information & Purpose
2. Why Choose Fedora? (Fedora vs. Ubuntu)

F8 Kriehn Repository

1. Professor Kriehn's Fedora Repository

F8 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 (bash)
3.3 .bashrc Script
   3.4 Services

F8 HOWTOs

1. Internet Access
   1.1 Networking
1.2 Wireless (with WPA/WP2 Encryption)

2. Security
   2.1 Secure Shell (ssh & sshd)
   2.2 Firewall
   2.3 SELinux
   2.4 BlockHosts
   2.5 RKhunter

3. Setup for Installing Applications
   3.1 Updating the Database for mlocate
   3.2 yum, yum plugins, & yumex
   3.3 Repositories & Updates

4. Network/Filesystem Services & Applications
   4.1 Network File System (NFS)
   4.2 Samba Server for Windows
   4.3 NTFS for Windows Partitions
   4.4 Automated Backups & Scripting with rsync
4.5 rsync Server
   4.6 Network Printing with CUPS
   4.7 Scanning with xsane

5. E-Mail & Spam
   5.1 sendmail Configuration
   5.2 fetchmail Configuration
   5.3 spambayes
5.4 dovecot

6. Apache/MySQL/PHP Services & Applications
   6.1 Apache Web Server
6.2 ModSecurity
   6.3 MySQL Server
   6.4 phpMyAdmin
   6.5 MediaWiki
   6.6 phpBB
6.7 Joomla

7. Hosting a Yum Repository
7.1 GnuPG Key
7.2 Creating a Yum Repository

F8 HOWTOs (continued)

8. Enlightenment DR17 (E17)
   8.1 E17 Installation
   8.2 E17 Entrance Setup
   8.3 E17 General Configuration
   8.4 E17 Animated Backgrounds

9. Gnome Applications & Settings
9.1 Compiz Fusion & Emerald
9.2 Gnome Keyring
9.3 nautilus

10. Latptop & General Settings
   10.1 beep (curses bell)
   10.2 Boot Options
10.3 cpuspeed
10.4 i8kutils

11. Google Applications
11.1 Google Earth
11.2 Google Picasa
11.3 Google Desktop

12. Multimedia-Based Applications & Setup
   12.1 Acrobat Reader & Plugin
12.2 Audacity
12.3 BitTorrent & Azureus
12.4 Burning CD/DVDs from a Command Prompt
   12.5 Flash Plugin
   12.6 gnomebaker & k3b
12.7 gtkpod
   12.8 Java
   12.9 Mplayer, Mplayerplug-in, & .xpi
   12.10 MSFonts
   12.11 Nvidia Driver
   12.12 RealPlayer
12.13 Skype
   12.14 xmms & audacious (with mp3 plugin)

13. Drawing & Image Manipulation Programs
   13.1 gv
   13.2 IVTools
   13.3 jpeg2ps
13.4 pdftk
   13.5 pngout
   13.6 Tgif
   13.7 xv

14. Programming Applications
   14.1 AUCTeX
   14.2 IDL
14.3 LaTeX Configuration & TeTeX Extras
   14.4 Nvu/KompoZer

15. General Utilities
15.1 gkrellm
15.2 gparted & qtparted
   15.3 Pine
   15.4 xosview
   15.5 Other Applications

F8 Additional References

1. Reference List

Looking Toward Fedora 9

1. Preparing to Install Fedora 9

Additional Fedora Systems Administration Pages
Fedora 9 Installation Notes and HOWTOs
Fedora 7 Installation Notes and HOWTOs
Fedora Core 6 Installation Notes and HOWTOs
Fedora Core 5 Installation Notes and HOWTOs