Red Hat Linux Fedora for Dummies - Softcover

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Jon 'maddog' Hall (Amherst, NH) is Executive Director of Linux International. Mr. Hall is a world--renowned Linux Evangelist and the author of the first two editions of Linux For Dummies as well as other For Dummies books on SuSE and TurboLinux. Paul G. Sery (Albuquerque, NM) works in the Special Projects Group of the Sandia National Laboratories. He assists in the operation and management of the Computer Science Research Institute Network. He is the author of the Red Hat Linux Network Toolkit and the co--author of Red Hat Linux Internet Server, TurboLinux For Dummies, and Red Hat Linux in Small Business.

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Install Fedora Core from the companion DVD and set up your workstation

Configure broadband Internet connections, work with OpenOffice.org, and more

Red Hat has merged its flagship Red Hat Linux product with the Fedora Project to create the Fedora Core distribution. This handy guide helps you work with Fedora. It walks you through installing and configuring the operating system, getting online, building a firewall, using Windows^® applications with Wine, tuning in to streaming multimedia with MPlayer^®, and even creating your own secure, private network.

All this on the bonus DVD

• Full Fedora Core distribution, including source code, on DVD

Discover how to:

• Get online with cable, DSL, or dial-up modems
• Manage e-mail with Mozilla^TM and Evolution^TM
• Troubleshoot a network
• Partition and defragment hard drives
• Use the GNOME^TM desktop environment
• Work with OpenOffice.org