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Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562790

Length 271 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Fedora

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Neil Smyth

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Table of Contents (32) Chapters

1. Introduction

2. A Brief History of Linux FREE CHAPTER

3. Installing Fedora 31 on a Clean Disk Drive

4. Dual Booting Fedora 31 with Windows

5. Allocating Windows Disk Partitions to Fedora 31

6. A Guided Tour of the GNOME 3 Desktop

7. An Overview of the Fedora 31 Cockpit Web Interface

8. Using the Bash Shell on Fedora 31

9. Managing Fedora 31 Users and Groups

10. Understanding Fedora 31 Software Installation and Management

11. Configuring Fedora 31 systemd Units

12. Fedora 31 Network Management

13. Basic Fedora 31 Firewall Configuration with firewalld

14. Configuring SSH Key-based Authentication on Fedora 31

15. Fedora 31 Remote Desktop Access with VNC

16. Displaying Fedora 31 Applications Remotely (X11 Forwarding)

17. Using NFS to Share Fedora 31 Files with Remote Systems

18. Sharing Files between Fedora 31 and Windows Systems with Samba

19. An Overview of Virtualization Techniques

20. Installing KVM Virtualization on Fedora 31

21. Creating KVM Virtual Machines using Cockpit and virt-manager

22. Creating KVM Virtual Machines with virt-install and virsh

23. Creating a Fedora 31 KVM Networked Bridge Interface

24. Managing KVM using the virsh Command-Line Tool

25. An Introduction to Linux Containers

26. Working with Containers on Fedora 31

27. Setting Up a Fedora 31 Web Server

28. Configuring a Fedora 31 Postfix Email Server

29. Adding a New Disk Drive to a Fedora 31 System

30. Adding a New Disk to a Fedora 31 Volume Group and Logical Volume

31. Adding and Managing Fedora 31 Swap Space

Index

3.1 Fedora Installation Options

Fedora can be downloaded free of charge from the following web page:

https://getfedora.org/

This page provides a number of download options depending on how the operating system is to be installed and used:

•Fedora Workstation - Downloads the installation media for the workstation edition of the operating system. This edition is intended for use on desktop and laptop systems where a graphical desktop environment is needed and is only available for 64-bit x86 systems. The workstation edition can be downloaded in the form of an ISO image which you can then write to a USB drive using the steps outlined later in this chapter. If you are performing the download on a Windows or macOS system, however, the easiest option is to download the Fedora Media Writer tool. This can be used to download the required Fedora edition and write it to a USB drive. Regardless of the download option chosen, the workstation media will allow you to test out Fedora...

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