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<title>Your Next Steps</title>
<para>
- Once you have installed &FC; you have a complete operating system at your
- disposal. This chapter enables you to take the next steps.
+ &FC; provides you with a complete operating system with a vast range
+ of capabilities, supported by a large community.
</para>
- <section id="sn-concepts">
- <title>Concepts</title>
-
- <para>
- The installation process shows some of the aspects of Linux-based
- systems that may be unfamiliar to users of other operating
- systems. These are explained below.
- </para>
-
-
- <section id="sn-concepts-accounts">
- <title>User Accounts and the Root Account</title>
-
- <para>
- User accounts on Linux-based systems do not have unrestricted
- access to the system. Only the root account has such access,
- and users use tools to gain root access for a specific program, or for
- short periods of time. This protects the system from both user
- error and hostile software.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-concepts-sessions">
- <title>Logins and Sessions</title>
-
- <para>
- &FED; is a <firstterm>multi-user</firstterm> system, enabling many
- users to be logged in to the same system simultaneously. Each
- user may also log in more than once. Individual <firstterm>sessions</firstterm>
- can either be applications, graphical desktops or command-line
- environments. The maximum number of local and remote sessions is
- only limited by the resources of your machine.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <title>Console sessions</title>
- <para>
- The sessions that use the keyboard and display attached to the
- machine can use discs and shutdown the machine without root access.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- OpenSSH is automatically installed on all &FED; systems to
- provide secure remote access. The SSH service enables users to
- transfer files, run applications, and login to command-line
- sessions from other systems.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To support multi-user access, the graphical software is <firstterm>network
- transparent</firstterm>, a feature of the X-Windows technology
- used by all UNIX-like systems. This network transparency means
- that you can launch graphical applications on remote systems and
- have them appear on your current desktop when logged into any
- system that includes both SSH and X-Windows software.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- X-Windows enables network desktop sessions with XDMCP (X
- Display Manager Control Protocol). &FC; also includes VNC,
- which provides additional features for remote desktop access.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For more information, refer to the <ulink
- url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/">Linux XDMCP HOWTO</ulink>.
- </para>
-
- <caution>
- <title>X-Windows and VNC Are Only Secure With SSH</title>
- <para>
- SSH encrypts all of the connections that it makes between
- systems. X-Windows and VNC connections are not encrypted
- unless made with SSH.
- </para>
- </caution>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-concepts-environments">
- <title>Environments</title>
-
- <para>
- &FED; systems may have multiple graphical and command-line
- environments installed. Applications run in all environments.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- By default, the GNOME desktop is installed with &FC;, providing an
- easy to use graphical environment with a full set of utilities.
- GNOME also has the best support for users with special
- accessibility needs.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- &FC; also includes the KDE environment, a highly customizable
- desktop that offers an extensive range of features. Additional
- graphical environments are available from &FED; Extras.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For more information on these desktop environments, refer to the
- <xref linkend="sn-desktop-help"></xref>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- GNU <command>bash</command> is the default command-line
- environment, or <firstterm>shell</firstterm>, for &FED;. For
- more information on <command>bash</command>, refer to the
- following documents:
- </para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html">Bash Guide for Beginners</ulink>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html">Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</ulink>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>
- You are not required to use only one environment. The settings
- for each environment are stored in separate files in your home directory.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-concepts-networking">
- <title>Networking</title>
-
- <para>
- UNIX-like systems such as &FED; use the same network
- technologies as the Internet. For example:
- </para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- TCP/IP is the basic protocol for networking.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Automated processes use e-mail to report to the system administrator.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Many applications use HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
- as the default method for transferring files.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>
- For more information on networking concepts, refer to <ulink
- url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/">Chapters 1 and 2 of the
- Linux Network Administrators Guide</ulink>.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-concepts-packages">
- <title>Software Packages</title>
-
- <para>
- All of the software and documentation prepared for use with
- &FED; is supplied in the form of files called RPM
- <firstterm>packages</firstterm>. Each package is a compressed
- archive containing product information, program files,
- documentation and management scripts. Packages also include a
- digital signature to prove their source. These files are used
- by management applications to safely locate, install, update and
- remove software.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The &FED; installation process uses the packages supplied with
- &FC; to build or upgrade a system to your requirements. After
- the installation, use <application>up2date</application> and
- <command>yum</command> to install and manage the software on
- your &FED; system.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Both of these applications automatically locate and obtain
- packages from <firstterm>repositories</firstterm>, which are prepared
- directories or Websites. The &FP; has a network of repository
- servers to provide software. These repositories hold the
- packages included with &FC; and a large selection of additional
- software, known as &FED; Extras. Third-party software
- developers also provide repositories for their &FED; compatible packages.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <title>All &FED; packages are Free Software</title>
- <para>
- All of the software provided by the &FP; is Free Software, or Open
- Source, and can therefore be downloaded and installed without restrictions.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-concepts-partitioning">
- <title>Access Control - File Permissions and &SEL;</title>
-
- <para>
- <remark role="FIXME">INCOMPLETE - link to &SEL; FAQ etc. here.</remark>
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-concepts-partitions">
- <title>Disks and Partitions</title>
-
- <para>
- <remark role="FIXME">Needs a bit of prefacing text.</remark>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For more information on partitioning, refer to <ulink
- url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/">Linux Partition HOWTO</ulink>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For more information on the directory structure, refer to the
- <ulink url="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/">Filesystem
- Hierarchy Standard</ulink>.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-common-tasks">
- <title>Common Tasks</title>
-
- <para>
- These are common tasks when first beginning to use a &FED; system.
- </para>
-
-
- <section id="sn-fedora-desktop">
- <title>Logging in to the &FED; Desktop</title>
-
- <para>
- To log in to the graphical interface, type your username at the
- prompt and press Enter. Type your password at the next prompt and
- press Enter once more. Your default graphical environment loads
- on the screen.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To use another graphical environment, click <guilabel>Session</guilabel>
- menu on the login screen and select the environment from the
- drop-down list. Enter your username and password as normal.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-fedora-commandline">
- <title>Accessing the Command-line</title>
-
- <para>
- There are three standard methods for accessing the command-line on a &FED;
- system:
- </para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Run the <application>gnome-terminal</application>
- application. From the <guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu, choose
- <menuchoice><guimenu>System Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Terminal</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Log in to your system over the network with SSH.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Change virtual consoles.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>
- Each of these facilities starts a new session that runs in
- addition to any graphical desktop sessions that you are using.
- </para>
-
-
- <section id="sn-vconsoles">
- <title>Virtual Consoles</title>
-
- <para>
- You can login to your system more than once by switching between
- the <firstterm>virtual consoles</firstterm>. There are four
- active virtual consoles that are command-line only. The
- graphical interface is configured as virtual console seven.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To switch to a different virtual console, press
- <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>Alt</keycap></keycombo>
- and the Function key that matches the number of that console.
- For example, press
- <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>Alt</keycap><keycap>F1</keycap></keycombo>
- to switch to virtual console one, and press
- <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>Alt</keycap><keycap>F7</keycap></keycombo>
- to return to the graphical interface.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-fedora-rootaccess">
- <title>Using the Root Account</title>
-
- <para>
- <remark role="FIXME">INCOMPLETE - Explain the cryptic stuff in
- the Root Password section about using su here.</remark>
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-fedora-updating">
- <title>Updating Your System</title>
-
- <para>
- <remark role="FIXME">INCOMPLETE - Link to update tutorial.</remark>
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-fedora-adminmail">
- <title>Enabling E-mail Reports</title>
-
- <para>
- <remark role="FIXME">INCOMPLETE - Edit the aliases to point root
- to a real e-mail address. Installers on other distros set
- this up by default.</remark>
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-finding-help">
- <title>Finding Help</title>
-
- <para>
- Each graphical application has a <guilabel>Help</guilabel>
- facility. Other types of software also have help systems and
- documentation that you can access.
- </para>
-
-
- <section id="sn-desktop-help">
- <title>Desktop Help</title>
-
- <para>
- Select <guilabel>Help</guilabel> from the
- <guimenu>Desktop</guimenu> menu to read the documentation for
- the GNOME desktop environment.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-commandline-help">
- <title>Help for Command-line Applications</title>
-
- <para>
- Each command-line application and configuration file has a
- <command>man</command> page that gives a complete description of
- all of the functions and options. These are shown in the
- <guilabel>Man Pages</guilabel> section within
- <guilabel>Help</guilabel>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You can also read the page for an application or file by using
- the <command>man</command> command in a terminal window. For
- example, to read the page for the file
- <filename>yum.conf</filename>, type:
- </para>
-
- <screen>
- <userinput>man yum.conf</userinput>
- </screen>
-
- <para>
- To see the various search options available with
- <command>man</command>, type:
- </para>
-
- <screen>
- <userinput>man man</userinput>
- </screen>
-
- <para>
- The utilities supplied by the GNU project have complete manuals
- organized in a help system, as well as individual
- <command>man</command> pages.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Type <command>info</command> in a terminal window to load the
- GNU help system. You can open the manual for a specific program
- by adding the name of the program after <command>info</command>,
- like this:
- </para>
-
- <screen>
- <userinput>info chown</userinput>
- </screen>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-perl-help">
- <title>Perl Documentation</title>
-
- <para>
- The <command>man</command> command also provides access to the
- documentation for the Perl scripting language. Each tutorial,
- reference work and module has a page. As an example, this
- command displays the page for the <command>Net::Time</command> Perl module:
- </para>
-
- <screen>
- <userinput>man Net::Time</userinput>
- </screen>
-
- <para>
- The <option>perltoc</option> page gives a complete list of the
- documentation pages available for Perl:
- </para>
-
- <screen>
- <userinput>man perltoc</userinput>
- </screen>
-
- <para>
- Using <command>man</command> accesses the same documentation as
- the <command>perldoc</command> utility supplied with Perl. You
- may wish to use <command>perldoc</command> to carry out
- specialized searches in the Perl documentation. For example,
- type this command to look up the Perl function
- <option>chomp</option>:
- </para>
-
- <screen>
- <userinput>perldoc -f chomp</userinput>
- </screen>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="sn-packaged-help">
- <title>Manufacturer Documentation</title>
-
- <para>
- The software packages provided by the &FP; include the
- documentation supplied by the original developers of the
- software. Where developers have provided a large quantity of
- extra documentation for their product, the &FP; delivers this
- documentation in a separate package to the software itself.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Installing a package that contains documentation creates a
- directory with the same name as the package <filename>/usr/share/doc/</filename>. For
- example, the name of the package for Samba 3.0.8 is
- <filename>samba-3.0.10-1.i386.rpm</filename>, and the
- package places the documentation from the Samba Team in the directory
- <filename>/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.10/</filename> when installed.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The developers of the software use the file formats that they
- consider appropriate, and commonly provide a combination of
- HTML, PDF and text files, as well as <command>man</command> pages.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <title>The Apache Manual</title>
- <para>
- The main manual for the Apache Web server is accessed through
- the server at <wordasword>/manual/</wordasword>. For example,
- enter the URL
- <wordasword>http://myserver.mydomain.com/manual/</wordasword> in
- your Web browser to read the manual on the server
- <wordasword>myserver.mydomain.com</wordasword>. The files are
- stored in the directory <filename>/var/www/manual/</filename>.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- </section>
-
-
<section id="sn-web-help">
<title>Documentation on the Web</title>
@@ -563,27 +45,25 @@
</section>
- <section id="sn-community-help">
- <title>Community Support</title>
+ <section id="sn-community-help">
+ <title>Community Support</title>
- <para>
+ <para>
Members of the &FED; community provides support through mailing
lists, web forums and Linux User Groups (LUGs) across the world.
- </para>
+ </para>
- <para>
+ <para>
The Website for the official forums is:
- </para>
+ </para>
- <para>
+ <para>
<ulink
url="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/">http://forums.fedoraforum.org/</ulink>
- </para>
+ </para>
</section>
- </section>
-
<section id="sn-community">
<title>Joining The &FED; Community</title>
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