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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

6.1 Installing the GNOME Desktop

If either the Workstation or Server with GUI software configuration was selected during the Fedora 31 installation process, the GNOME desktop will already be installed and will automatically launch each time the system starts.

If any other software configuration was selected during the Fedora 31 installation process, the GNOME desktop will not have been included in the packages installed on the system. On server-based systems without a display attached, the idea of installing a graphical desktop environment may seem redundant. It is worth noting, however, that remote access to the GNOME desktop is also possible so, even on so called headless servers (i.e. servers lacking a monitor, keyboard and mouse) it may still be beneficial to install the GNOME desktop packages. The topic of establishing remote desktop access will be covered in detail in the “Fedora 31 Remote Desktop Access with VNC” chapter of this book.

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