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Fedora 17Inside

Teguh “DC” DwicaksanaPRESENTED BY:

[email protected]

This presentation is licensed under a Creative CommonsAttribution-ShareAlike (BY-SA) 3.0 license.

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Today's Topics

· Fedora Project

· Fedora 17 Features

· Common Installation Tips

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Fedora Project

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What We Believe ?

· We believe in the value of free software, and fight to protect and promote solutions anyone can use and redistribute

· We also believe in the power of collaboration. Staying close to upstream projects

· We also believe in empowering others to pursue their own visions of a free operating system

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Fedora's Core Values

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freedom

· 100% free, legal, redistributable.

· Software. Artwork. Project code. EVERYTHING.

· Never cutting corners

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friends

· Everyone has something to give.

· 25,000 Fedora account holders and growing.

· Disagreement, then discussion, then consensus.

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features

· Technical excellence.

· Upstream collaboration.

· Our features become part of openSUSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva, others...

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first

· Innovation!

· We don't wait for others to do the heavy lifting.

· Rapid release cycle.

· Community R&D lab

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Spins

· Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora, tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations

· There are a lot of packages in Fedora, and it can be time-consuming to look up and install all the software you might need for a particular task.

· KDE, XFCE, LXDE, Security, Games, SoaS, Electronic-Lab, Scientific-KDE, Design-suite, Robotics

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Remix

· A Fedora Remix is a combination of Fedora software, with or without third-party software, that any community member can create at any time

· A Fedora Remix product may contain some software that is forbidden to include in Fedora itself

· You can call it by a completely different name, and have different artwork and logos

· FusionLinux, Rasberry Pi, Kororaa

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How can you help?

http://join.fedoraproject.org

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Fedora Indonesia

· Blog: http://www.fedora.or.id

· Planet: http://planet.fedora.or.id

· Forum: http://fedora.or.id/forum

· Twitter: @fedoraid

· Facebook: Fedora Indonesia

· Milis: [email protected]

· IRC: irc.freenode.net #fedora.indonesia

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Fedora 17 Features

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Hardware Requirements

· Processor > Pentium 3

· Minimum RAM

· for text-mode: 768 MiB

· for graphical: 768 MiB

· Recommended RAM for graphical: 1152 MiB

· Harddisk

· Complete: > 9GB

· Minimum: 90 MiB

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Changes in Fedora 17

· GNOME 3.4 and KDE 4.8

· OpenStack, Eucalyptus and Open Nebula

· ICC profiles for color printing and an improved gimp

· Still more virtualization improvements

· Software Rendering for GNOME Shell

· Removal media changes mount points

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Features

· Presto

· PackageKit

· PolicyKit

· SystemD

· SELinux

· NetworkManager

· Kickstart

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Presto

· The presto plugin for yum adds support for downloading deltarpms and using them to generate new packages

· It will make a substantial dent in the amount of data having to be downloaded for updates

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PackageKit

· Packagekit is a distribution neutral package management framework and frontend

· The actual nuts-and-bolts distro tool (yum, apt, conary, etc) is used by PackageKit using compiled and scripted helpers. PackageKit isn't meant to replace these tools

· Fedora, Foresight Linux, Moblin, Kubuntu, openSUSE, SLES, Sabayon

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PolicyKit

· PolicyKit provides a flexible framework for granting users access to privileged operations. It is meant to replace the old userhelper approach, and overcome some of its shortcomings

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SystemD

· systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts

· Fedora 14 featured it is a technology preview. It is the default in Fedora 15 and above replacing Upstart

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SELinux

· SE (Security Enhanced) Linux is a security feature in the Linux kernel and enabled by default in Fedora that provides more fine grained access control compared to traditional file permissions

· A centralized policy determines which software can access what resources

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Kickstart

· Many system administrators would prefer to use an automated installation method to install Fedora on their machines

· Using kickstart, a system administrator can create a single file containing the answers to all the questions that would normally be asked during a typical installation

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CommonInstallation

Tips

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Installation Media

· DVD or CD

· LiveCD or LiveUSB

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First Boot

· For Create User make sure you create an account for yourself. If this user account will also be administering the computer, make sure to select "Add to Administrators group".

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YUM

· Plugins: yum-plugin-fastestmirror

· Third Party Repositories

· RPMFusion

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Multimedia

· MP3 (Rhythmbox/Gstreamer)

· rhythmbox

· gstreamer-plugins-ugly

· gstreamer-plugins-bad

· gstreamer-ffmpeg

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Truetype Fonts

· Microsoft Truetype Fonts vs Liberation Fonts

· System Wide: /usr/share/fonts

· Per user: ~/.fonts

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Adobe Flash Plugins

· 32 bit

· $ sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

· $ sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

· 64 bit

· $ sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

· $ sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

· Install: sudo yum install flash-plugin

· Restart Browser

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Adobe Acrobat

· $ sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

· $ sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

· $ sudo yum install AdobeReader_enu

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Misc Apps

· Dropbox

· Skype

· Google chrome

· Google voice and video chat

· Proprietary Drivers for VGA (ATI/NVIDIA)

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Make it simple

· fedorautilshttp://fedorautils.sourceforge.net/

· autoplushttp://dnmouse.org/autoten/

· Gnome tweak tool

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Doesn't Like gnome-shell ?

· Cinnamon

· Mate Desktop

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Summary

· freedom. friends. features. first.

· Spins. Remix.

· Fedora utils. Autoplus. Gnome Tweak Tools.

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Questions?

[email protected]: @dheche

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