Beginning Fedora Desktop / / Richard Petersen

• Autore: Petersen Richard
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Apress, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2013.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxv, 477 pages) : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 004; 005.4; 005.4/46; 005.432
• Soggetto topico: Operating systems (Computers); Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems); Computer science; Computer software
• Note generali: Everything you need to know to use Fedora Desktop in one place"--Cover.; Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents at a Glance""; ""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1: Getting Started""; ""Chapter 1: Fedora 18 Introduction""; ""Fedora Documentation""; ""Fedora 18""; ""Fedora 18 Desktop Features""; ""Fedora ISO images""; ""Fedora Custom Spins""; ""Multimedia""; ""Fedora Live DVD""; ""Starting the Live DVD""; ""Installing Fedora from a Live DVD""; ""USB Live Disk""; ""liveusb-creator""; ""livecd-iso-to-disk""; ""Live USB Persistence Storage""; ""Persistent Home Directory""; ""Fedora Logo""; ""Linux""; ""Open Source Software""; ""Linux Documentation"" ; ""Chapter 2: Installation and Upgrade""""Obtaining the DVDs""; ""Install Strategies: Making Use of Repositories""; ""Live DVD Advantages""; ""Fedora Install DVD Advantages""; ""Installation Issues""; ""Installing Dual-Boot Systems""; ""Storage Configuration""; ""Install Sources (Install DVD)""; ""Basic Install with Fedora Live Desktop DVD""; ""Quick Install with the Install DVD""; ""Installing Fedora Linux""; ""Starting the Installation Program with the Install DVD""; ""Check Disk Media""; ""Initial Setup""; ""Automatic Partitioning"" ; ""Manual Partitioning: Partitions, BTRFS, RAID, and Logical Volumes""""Recommended Partitions""; ""Creating Partitions""; ""Logical Volumes""; ""RAID and BTRFS""; ""Software Installation Configuration with the Fedora Install DVD/CDs""; ""Network Configuration with the Fedora Install DVD/CDs""; ""GRUB on Restart""; ""Setting Up Fedora""; ""Create User""; ""Date and Time""; ""Upgrading Fedora Linux""; ""Creating Boot Disks""; ""Booting in Rescue Mode""; ""Re-Installing the Bootloader""; ""Chapter 3: Usage Basics: Login, Desktop, and Help""; ""User Accounts"" ; ""GRUB Start Menu and Boot Problems""""The Display Manager: GDM""; ""The User Menu""; ""Important Laptop Features""; ""Desktops""; ""KDE""; ""Xfce and LXDE""; ""Cinnamon and Mate""; ""GNOME""; ""GNOME File Manager""; ""Logging Out and Shutting Down from GNOME""; ""Network Connections""; ""Network Manager Wired Connections""; ""Network Manager Wireless Connections""; ""System Settings Network (GNOME and Proxies)""; ""System Settings""; ""Background""; ""Date and Time""; ""Details (System Information)""; ""Using Removable Devices and Media""; ""Brightness and Lock""; ""Power Management"" ; ""Display (Resolution and Rotation)""""Universal Access""; ""Keyboard""; ""Color Profiles (GNOME Color Manager)""; ""Online Accounts""; ""Accessing File Systems, Devices, and Remote Hosts""; ""Video Drivers""; ""Multimedia Support: MP3, DVD Video, and DivX""; ""Terminal Window""; ""Command-Line Interface""; ""Running Windows Software on Linux: Wine""; ""Help Resources""; ""GNOME and KDE Help""; ""Context-Sensitive Help""; ""Application Documentation""; ""The Man Pages""; ""The Info Pages""; ""Web Resources""; ""Chapter 4: Installing and Updating Software: YUM, PackageKit, and RPM"" ; ""Software Repositories""
• Sommario/riassunto: Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 18 Edition is a complete guide to using the Fedora 18 Desktop Linux release as your daily driver for mail, productivity, social networking, and more. Author and Linux expert Richard Petersen delves into the operating system as a whole and offers you a complete treatment of Fedora 18 Desktop installation, configuration, and use. You'll discover how to install Fedora 18 Desktop on any hardware, learn which applications perform which functions, how to manage software updates, tips and tricks for the GNOME 3 and KDE desktops, useful shell commands, and both the Fedora administration and network tools. Get the most out of Fedora 18 Desktop -- including free Office suites, editors, e-book readers, music and video applications and codecs, email clients, Web and FTP browsers, microblogging and IM applications -- with a copy of Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 18 Edition at your side.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beginning Fedora Desktop
• ISBN: 1-4302-6563-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910735400403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Expert's voice in Linux.