Fedora 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible

Book Description

More than a quarter of a million copies sold in previous editions!

Freedom is a feature

With Fedora’s new Online Desktop, you are free to shape your desktop environment to include the services, applications, and online friends you desire. As always, Fedora’s total dedication to freedom lets you draw on thousands of free software packages to create the exact desktop or server computer you need.

Fedora puts together the software (provided here on CD and DVD). This book acts as a guide to everything from playing music and writing documents to configuring many powerful Web, file, print, DHCP, and database servers.

Customize Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux to:

• Explore your computer or the Internet from GNOME®, KDE®, or Online Desktops
• Manage and use documents, spreadsheets, presentations, music, and images
• Try the new advanced PulseAudio sound server
• Draw from online software repositories with Package Manager and Package Updater
• Build an Internet server with e-mail, Web, DNS, FTP, and database services
• Secure your computer with firewalls, password protection, and SELinux
• Try out cutting-edge Fedora 8 features:
• Use Codeina to get legal software to play MP3, Windows media, and other audio/video formats
• Organize photos, music, friends, docs, and Web favorites in the new experimental Online Desktop
• Explore the latest in KVM and QEMU virtualization and AIGLX 3D-desktop

What’s on the DVD and CD-ROM?

• Install Fedora 8 (8GB) from DVD
• Boot Fedora 8 GNOME Live CD, and then install its contents to your hard drive

System Requirements: Please see the Preface and Appendix A for details and complete system requirements.

Open for more!

• Check out the new Online Desktop
• Find ten cool things to do with Fedora
• Run a Fedora 8 quick install

Add pop and power with Online Desktop and 3D acceleration
Organizing the people, places, and things you need on your desktop is now easier with the new GNOME Online Desktop. Get organized, then pile on some bling with 3D-accelerated desktop effects.

Put friends, photos, and fun on your new Online Desktop
Your favorite people and your online favorites are totally accessible from the new GNOME Online Desktop.

Play with 3D desktop animations
Continued improvements in 3D software let you rotate workspaces on a 3D cube, choose 3D minimize effects, and set 3D wobble effects.

中文：

书名：Fedora 8和Red Hat Enterprise Linux圣经

在之前的版本中售出了超过25万册！

自由是一种特征

有了Fedora的新在线桌面，您可以自由地塑造您的桌面环境，以包括您想要的服务、应用程序和在线朋友。一如既往，Fedora对自由的完全奉献让您可以利用数千个免费软件包来创建您需要的准确的台式机或服务器计算机。

Fedora将软件组装在一起(这里以CD和DVD的形式提供)。从播放音乐和编写文档到配置许多功能强大的Web、文件、打印、DHCP和数据库服务器，本书可作为所有内容的指南。

自定义Fedora或Red Hat Enterprise Linux以：

• 从GNOME®、kde®或在线桌面浏览您的计算机或互联网
• 管理和使用文档、电子表格、演示文稿、音乐和图像
• 尝试新的高级PulseAudio声音服务器
• 使用Package Manager和Package Updater从在线软件存储库中提取
• 构建具有电子邮件、Web、DNS、FTP和数据库服务的Internet服务器
• 使用防火墙、密码保护和SELinux保护您的计算机
• 体验Fedora 8的尖端功能：
• 使用Codeina获取正版软件以播放MP3、Windows媒体和其他音频/视频格式
• 在新的实验性在线桌面中整理照片、音乐、朋友、文档和Web收藏夹
• 了解最新的KVM和QEMU虚拟化以及AIGLX 3D桌面

DVD和CD-ROM上有什么？

• Install Fedora 8 (8GB) from DVD
• 启动Fedora 8 GNOME Live CD，然后将其内容安装到硬盘上

系统要求：请参阅前言和附录A，了解详细和完整的系统要求。

打开查看更多内容！

• 查看新的在线桌面
• 找出十件与Fedora有关的酷事
• 运行到Fedora 8快速安装

通过在线桌面和3D加速增强POP和功能
有了新的GNOME在线桌面，您现在可以更轻松地在桌面上组织您需要的人员、地点和物品。整理一下，然后用3D加速的桌面效果增添一些闪闪发光的效果。

将朋友、照片和乐趣放到新的在线桌面上
您最喜欢的人和您的在线收藏完全可以从新的GNOME在线桌面访问。

播放3D桌面动画
3D软件的持续改进使您可以旋转3D立方体上的工作空间，选择3D最小化效果，以及设置3D摆动效果。