Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 18 Edition

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Apress, Nov 29, 2013 - Computers - 504 pages
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.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Getting Started
2
Applications
127
Desktops
228
Administration
352
Index
467
Contents
vii
About the Author
xxii
Copyright

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Richard Petersen (Alameda, CA) has an MLIS in library and information studies and teaches UNIX and C/C++ courses at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Linux: The Complete Reference (all four previous editions), Linux Programming: A Beginner s Guide, and many other titles. Ibrahim Haddad (Quebec, Canada) is a researcher at the Ericsson Corporate Unit of Research (Open Systems Lab) in Montreal, Canada, where he is involved with the system architecture of third generation wireless IP networks. He has presented several talks and tutorials at local universities, user groups, and conferences such as Ottawa Linux Symposium 2002. Ibrahim represents Ericsson on the Open Source Development Lab Carrier-Grade Linux Technical Board and sub-groups. He is also a Contributing Editor for the Linux Journal.

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