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Fedora Linux System Administration

You're reading from Fedora Linux System Administration Install, manage, and secure your Fedora Linux environments

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804618400

Length 560 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Fedora

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Alex Callejas

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:The Fedora Project

2. Chapter 1: Linux and Open Source Projects FREE CHAPTER

3. Part 2:Workstation Configuration

4. Chapter 2: Best Practices for Installation

5. Chapter 3: Tuning the Desktop Environment

6. Chapter 4: Optimizing Storage Usage

7. Chapter 5: Network and Connectivity

8. Part 3:Productivity Tools

9. Chapter 6: Sandbox Applications

10. Chapter 7: Text Editors

11. Chapter 8: LibreOffice Suite

12. Chapter 9: Mail Clients and Browsers

13. Part 4:System Administration Tools

14. Chapter 10: System Administration

15. Chapter 11: Performance Tuning Best Practices

16. Chapter 12: Untangling Security with SELinux

17. Chapter 13: Virtualization and Containers

18. Index

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Package management

The Fedora Linux live installation media build is based on a kickstart (text) file where, depending on the version of the image, the packages that compose it are included.

The Fedora Workstation version includes the following groups of packages:

Common Network Manager Submodules
Container management
Core
Fedora Workstation product core
Firefox web browser
Fonts
GNOME
Guest desktop agents
Hardware support
LibreOffice
Multimedia
Printing support
base-x

Note

For more information about Fedora Composes, refer to fedora-kickstarts at https://pagure.io/fedora-kickstarts/.

To review the installed packages, perform the following steps:

Open the Activities overview window and select Software from the bottom icon bar:

Figure 2.25 – Activities overview

Figure 2.25 – Activities overview

Click the Installed tab:

Figure 2.26 – Software installed

Figure 2.26 – Software installed

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Authors (1)

Alex Callejas

Alex Callejas

Alex Callejas is a services content architect at Red Hat, the world's leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including Linux, the cloud, containers, and Kubernetes. He is based in Mexico City and is a free and open source software contributor. With more than 20 years of experience as a system administrator, he has strong expertise in infrastructure hardening and automation. An enthusiast of open source solutions, he supports the community by sharing his knowledge at different public-access and university events.

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