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Part I ✦ Getting Going

✦ X.org X server—The X server delivered with Fedora Core 2 changed from the XFree86

server to the X server software available from X.org. While this shouldn’t have much

impact on the average desktop user (who sees mostly the GNOME or KDE desktop

environment, colored by the metacity window manager and Bluecurve theme), it does

change some of the tools available for conﬁguring your video cards from the command

line.

✦ Many new packages—More than 200 new packages were added to Fedora Core 2 after

Fedora Core 1. While many of these packages were added to improve support for

application development (especially Java applications), some new administrative

features were added such as IPSEC (VPN software replacing cipe) and the exim mail

transfer agent (which could be used instead of sendmail or postﬁx).

Summary

Despite the change in both name and how it is produced, the Linux operating system referred

to as Fedora Core is a good, free Linux operating system for learning Linux troubleshooting.

Red Hat’s ﬂagship Red Hat Linux product formed the foundation for the new Fedora Core

distribution that is available today.

Linux Troubleshooting Bible is dedicated to bringing you the skills you need to prevent, ﬁnd,

and ﬁx problems with Fedora Core, in particular. The same skills you learn in troubleshooting

Fedora can be used for troubleshooting older Red Hat Linux systems and newer Red Hat

Enterprise Linux systems, as well as a variety of other Linux systems.

Besides the information in this book, there are many other resources available if you want to

support Fedora Core systems. The Fedora Project itself sponsors several very active mailing

lists where you can ask questions about Fedora features, development, and software ﬁxes. And

despite not having a full documentation set dedicated to Fedora, there are many useful

documents from Red Hat Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and from individual software

projects (included on the Fedora Core CDs) that can be used to ﬁnd information that applies

to Fedora.

Because Fedora is a community-supported distribution, there are many ways you can

contribute to the project itself. You can start by ﬁling bug reports when you encounter

problems. The Fedora Project also encourages you to contribute code ﬁxes and request for

enhancements to help improve Fedora going forward.