Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 20 Edition
Language: English
Pages: 504
ISBN: 1484200683
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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.
opens a window for setting your profile options with tabs for General, Title and Command, Colors, Scrolling, and Compatibility. The window title lists your current profile. This will be the default profile, if you have not set one up and selected another profile (see Figure 3-57). On the General tab, you can select the default size of a terminal window in text rows and columns. The Scrolling tab specifies the number of command lines your terminal history will keep. These are the lines you can
The http://rpmfusion.org site provides access to popular software for many software applications, including multimedia applications such as MPlayer, as well as those not included with Fedora, due to licensing issues. Several of the more popular packages include the vendor ATI and Nvidia graphics drivers (when available). RPM Fusion specializes in configuring sometimes difficult drivers for compatibility with Fedora. For example, you can download the Nvidia Linux driver directly from the Nvidia
directory, you then choose your architecture, such as i386 (32-bit) or x86_64 (64-bit). Here, you will see a simple file listing of all available packages. Alternatively, on PackageKit, you could deselect all software sources except RPM Fusion, so that only the RPM Fusion packages are listed in the Software window. Part of the rpmfusion-free.repo configuration file installed by the rpmfusion-free-release package is shown following. The configuration specifies the mirror list located at
(DVD/MP3 support) The bad Possibly unreliable but useful plug-ins (possible crashes) Another plug-in for GStreamer that you may want to include is ffmpeg, gstreamer-ffmpeg (RPM Fusion repositories). ffmpeg provides several popular codecs, including ogg and 264. For Pulse (sound server) and Farsight (video conferencing) support, use their respective GStreamer plug-ins on the Fedora repository. PackageKit will automatically detect the codec you will need to use for your GStreamer application. For
Install DVD or one of two Live DVDs: Live Desktop with GNOME or Live KDE with KDE. The Fedora Install DVD allows you to download from specified repositories during installation, as well as to select the packages you want installed. It also includes a more extensive set of packages on disk than the Live DVD. One major advantage of the Install DVD is its flexibility in the selection of software packages during installation. The Live DVDs install only a predetermined set of packages. The Fedora