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LINUX MAGAZINE

Linux Magazine DVD

Red Hat Enterprise offerings. The

project goals are designed by Red

Hat and openly developed with gen-

eral participation.

Red Hat states that Fedora Core is

intended to be the logical upgrade path

for previous users of Red Hat Linux.

Linux and uses Mandatory Access Con-

trol (MAC) within the kernel as opposed

to Discretionary Access Control (DAC).

Rather than just relying on a user’s iden-

tity and file permissions for controlling

who can run what process as is the case

under DAC, the MAC system allows for a

greater variety of control. Both role-

based access control and Type

Enforcement are used to control the

access to processes and thus give more

security to your system and thwart

crackers. For more information on

SELinux see http://people.redhat.com/

kwade/fedora-docs/selinux-faq-en/

Not only do we get a more secure

Linux, but Fedora has changed its graph-

ical heart. Rather than using the Xfree86

X11, Fedora Core 2 has X.org’s new

X11R6.7.0 windowing system. The inter-

nal core of any Linux system is the Linux

kernel upon which it is built. Fedora

Core 2 is based on the current 2.6 Linux

kernel.

For desktop and workstation users, the

key information is that the GNOME desk-

top environment is now fixed at 2.6 and

the KDE is uprated to 3.2.2 version.

Fedora Core 2, brings a whole new set of

yet another cutting edge Linux dis-

tribution. Fedora is the new name

for the community supported version of

Red Hat Linux. The project is sponsored

by Red Hat and the Fedora project acts as

a testing and proving ground for the lat-

est technology. When the technology has

proven stable enough, it will be used to

build the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distri-

bution.

Fedora is based within the community,

and as such, it has community set

release dates. These are expected to be

about every 4 to 6 months. The Linux

Magazine Fedora Core 2 DVD is the latest

full release and has an estimated life

expectancy of over six months.

The community is encouraged to help

shape the Fedora project and thus future

New Software

Similar to recent Red Hat Linux versions,

Fedora Core 2 uses the Anaconda instal-

lation tool. This can work in both

text-only mode or be fully graphical,

depending on your resources. It is also

possible to use a Kickstart disk to make

installations automatic, which is useful if

you have many to carry out. You can

copy the information off the DVD onto a

hard disk for either hard disk or network

installations.

The Core 2 version of the Fedora Pro-

ject contains SELinux. This is a new

option that is disabled by default, but by

entering

selinux

at the boot prompt, it can be enabled.

SELinux stands for Security Enhanced

Why run Fedora?

Because Fedora is both part of Red Hat in

that they direct the development, and part

of the community. It can be thought of as

the standard Linux distribution for most

Linux users and the development future of

the biggest Linux company.

With this in mind, it can act as a good learn-

ing base for those who want to discover the

joys of Linux and possibly enter a career as a

sys admin in the future. All the underlying

features within Fedora are present on the

majority of other Linux distributions. If you

learn how Fedora works and can control it

like a pro, then you can probably handle

most things found in any Linux that you

might come across in a corporate situation.

Figure 1: The GNOME desktop with Mozilla, Same, and network configuration.

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Figure 2: Nautilus browsing a file, OpenOffice spreadsheet and volume

control.

Figure 3:Using Fedora for hardware browsing,while viewing a PDf image

and installing the KDE packages.

software that is both refreshing and

exciting, such as Gimp 2.0, which now

has CMYK support and Samba 3.0. The

latter now has ActiveDirectory support

and a new authentication system.

The choice of packages may, at first,

be a little overwhelming, but it does

mean that you get to try many applica-

tions before you have to settle on a

particular program. For example, you

may prefer to do all of your web brows-

ing using either Konqueror from the KDE

setup, or Nautilus 2.6 from the GNOME

setup. Both of these tools are file man-

agers that have built in support to aid

web browsing. If those are not enough,

you can always revert to the popular

Mozilla 1.6.2, or try a more cutting edge

browser such as Epiphany.

After browsing you may want to chat

with friends. Why not fire up XChat and

join the Internet Relay Chat groups that

are helpful in solving technical prob-

lems? If you do not need the instant

answer, then you can always use news-

readers such as Pan or Knode.

For those who prefer something a little

different now and again, you can change

the whole window manager. Metacity, a

lightweight system, or Sawfish for more

serious use are included.

For those readers who need to get a

little work done with the system,

OpenOffice 1.1.1 takes a central role.

This, however, does not limit you choice

with both KOffice and the GNOME office

applications such as Gnumerics and Abi-

word still being available.

Developers need not worry as a whole

host of tools, languages and compilers

are on the DVD including Perl, Python

and the new GCC34

The fun side has still been left in this

future technology platform with quick

action games including Chromium, and

the civilization building simulator

FreeCiv. Multimedia is covered with

cdparanoia, cdrecord, grip, Rhythmbox

and of course, xmms.

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Objectives of Fedora Core:

•Create a complete operating system equivalent to competing operating systems, designed and

built for the benefit of the community by members of the community .

• Use only open source software to build the operating system .

•Development work will take place within each package individually. The Fedora Core will

update to new versions when security is enhanced and new features added to each package.

•Provide a platform for developing open source software.

• Adopt and develop new features and upgrades to be on the leading edge of open source tech-

nology.

• Usability should be paramount in configuration and feature design.

•New releases should be adopted rapidly and upgrades should be easy,without disturbing con-

figuration.

•Popular packages should be included, where they meet strict quality control standards,as long

as Red Hat is legally able to do so, even when they are not a part of the commercially supported

products.

• The operating system calls for the establishment of technical standards for all packages to

ensure a consistency of quality at all times.

•Provide a timetable for feature freezes for future versions.

•Provide, where possible, timely security patches and application updates.

• Allow third parties to produce packages that are easily incorporated into Fedora to enhance the

user’s choice.

•Pomote and encourage an internationalization of language support for the system and appli-

cations.

• Ensure that the Fedora project remains free to download in RPM, SRPM and ISO image formats

• Allow for a rapid rate of change where needed.

Hardware Requirements

200MHz Pentium processor or better for

text only, 400MHz or better for graphical

installation.

520MB hard disk (minimum), 870MB

(server), 2GB (Personal), 2.5GB (Workstation),

5.5GB (everything).

64MB RAM for text only install. 192MB mini-

mum graphical installation, 256MB or

greater recommended.

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