Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition

Fedora in Your Home

Fedora in Your Home

Fedora's basic install option copies a special set of preselected software packages onto your hard drive; these are suitable for small office/home office (SOHO) users. This option provides a wealth of productivity tools for document management, printing, communication, and personal productivity.

The basic installation option requires nearly 2GB of hard drive space but should easily fit onto smaller hard drives in older Pentium-class PCs. The install also contains administrative tools, additional authoring and publishing clients, a variety of editors, a Gnome- based desktop, support for sound, graphics editing programs, and graphical and text-based Internet tools. You can customize the selection to include or sidestep installation of unwanted software.

Connecting to the Internet is a snap, and Fedora supports modem dialup and other broadband connections, such as cable modems or Digital Subscriber Line (DSL). When you do connect, you can do so in relative confidence because the in-built firewall offers you protection from outside attacks and malicious intruders.

If you have a digital camera, run F-Spot client to download, organize, and manage your digital images. You can then fine-tune your pictures by editing them with one of the finest digital image editors in the world: the GIMP.

Fedora can be used for a variety of purposes, and every user has different needs. Fortunately Fedora and Linux offer many different programs to assist you in what you are attempting to do. I personally use Fedora mainly as a server to hold an extensive collection of OGG music files, as well as a growing collection of digital images. They are all available to my local network, and I can also upload files from wherever I am in the world by using the FTP server, or retrieve photos when I am visiting family and friends abroad.

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