1. Fedora 17
Inside
PRESENTED BY:
Teguh “DC” Dwicaksana
dheche@fedoraproject.org
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2. Today's Topics
· Fedora Project
· Fedora 17 Features
· Common Installation Tips

3. Fedora Project

4. 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

5. Fedora's Core Values

6. freedom
· 100% free, legal,
redistributable.
· Software. Artwork.
Project code.
EVERYTHING.
· Never cutting
corners

7. friends
· Everyone has
something to give.
· 25,000 Fedora
account holders and
growing.
· Disagreement, then
discussion, then
consensus.

8. features
· Technical
excellence.
· Upstream
collaboration.
· Our features become
part of openSUSE,
Ubuntu, Mandriva,
others...

9. first
· Innovation!
· We don't wait for
others to do the
heavy lifting.
· Rapid release cycle.
· Community R&D lab

10. 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

11. 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

12. How can you help?
http://join.fedoraproject.org

13. 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: fedora-id@googlegroups.com
· IRC: irc.freenode.net #fedora.indonesia

14. Fedora 17 Features

15. 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

16. 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

17. Features
· Presto
· PackageKit
· PolicyKit
· SystemD
· SELinux
· NetworkManager
· Kickstart

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Common
Installation
Tips

25. Installation Media
· DVD or CD
· LiveCD or LiveUSB

26. 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".

27. YUM
· Plugins: yum-plugin-fastestmirror
· Third Party Repositories
· RPMFusion

28. Multimedia
· MP3 (Rhythmbox/Gstreamer)
· rhythmbox
· gstreamer-plugins-ugly
· gstreamer-plugins-bad
· gstreamer-ffmpeg

29. Truetype Fonts
· Microsoft Truetype Fonts vs Liberation Fonts
· System Wide: /usr/share/fonts
· Per user: ~/.fonts

30. 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

31. 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

32. Misc Apps
· Dropbox
· Skype
· Google chrome
· Google voice and video chat
· Proprietary Drivers for VGA (ATI/NVIDIA)

33. Make it simple
· fedorautils
http://fedorautils.sourceforge.net/
· autoplus
http://dnmouse.org/autoten/
· Gnome tweak tool

34. Doesn't Like gnome-shell ?
· Cinnamon
· Mate Desktop

35. Summary
· freedom. friends. features. first.
· Spins. Remix.
· Fedora utils. Autoplus. Gnome Tweak Tools.

36. Questions?
CONTACT:
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Twitter: @dheche
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