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Fedora 17
Inside

PRESENTED BY:

Teguh “DC” Dwicaksana
dheche@fedoraproject.org

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Today's Topics

· Fedora Project
· Fedora 17 Features
· Common Installation Tips

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

freedom

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

friends

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

features

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

first

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

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

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

How can you help?

http://join.fedoraproject.org

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

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

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

Features

· Presto
· PackageKit
· PolicyKit
· SystemD
· SELinux
· NetworkManager
· Kickstart

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

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

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

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

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

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

Common
Installation
Tips

Installation Media

· DVD or CD
· LiveCD or LiveUSB

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".

YUM

· Plugins: yum-plugin-fastestmirror
· Third Party Repositories
· RPMFusion

Multimedia

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

Truetype Fonts

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

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
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

Adobe Acrobat

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

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

Make it simple

· fedorautils
http://fedorautils.sourceforge.net/
· autoplus
http://dnmouse.org/autoten/
· Gnome tweak tool

Doesn't Like gnome-shell ?

· Cinnamon
· Mate Desktop

Summary

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

Questions?
CONTACT:

dheche@fedoraproject.org
Twitter: @dheche
XMPP: dheche@gmail.com
irc.freenode.net: boncos #fedora #kolam

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