Datasheet

P1: KTU
WY025-01 Bible Tight WY025-Negus-v2.cls June 28, 2004 22:29
6
Part I ✦ Getting Going
Figure 1-1: Choose between GNOME and KDE desktops, based on the X Window System.
Fedora comes with all the basic desktop applications you would expect to find on a Linux
desktop: editors, web browsers, office productivity applications, music players, and graphics
programs. Using yum and apt repositories, you can add to the hundreds of desktop
applications that come with Fedora Core.
Whether you are supporting dozens of desktop systems or just a few, this book covers how to
troubleshoot installation (Chapter 2), your video card, mouse, and keyboard (Chapter 7), and
software packages (Chapter 8). Chapter 4 tells how to lock down a Fedora desktop system,
and Chapter 3 describes how to get critical updates for your desktop system.
Fedora Linux Servers
All the basic server features that came with Red Hat Linux are in Fedora Core. Graphical
configuration tools developed for Red Hat Linux are included in Fedora Core, as are a variety
of commands and graphical utilities for troubleshooting your servers.
Figure 1-2 illustrates the categories of server software in Fedora from the Package
Management window.
Despite the lack of guarantees from Red Hat, Inc., for supporting more than a short update
period for Fedora systems, a group of people committed to using Fedora as a server have
rallied around the Fedora Legacy Project (see Chapter 3 for details). Their goal is to provide
the long-term support for Fedora that it needs to be a viable server operating system.