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Beginning Fedora Desktop
Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 18 Edition is a complete guide to using the
Fedora 18 Desktop Linux release as your daily driver for administration, produc-
tivity, 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, including the GNOME 3 administration tools.
Get the most out of Fedora 18 Desktop—including 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.
What You’ll Learn:
• how to install Fedora 18 Desktop on any hardware
• the available desktop choices, including GNOME 3, KDE 4, and alternative
desktops such as LXDE and Cinnamon
• how to use office multimedia, and internet software
• how to maintain your system, manage users, configure network connections,
and perform backups
• how to participate in social networks using open source clients
• and much more
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