8:21 a.m.
Sorry I haven't had a chance to look or reply; been a busy week so far
(some travel, etc.). I'll take a look, hopefully have some time later
today.
Input from any others? Speak up, friends. :)
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 01:06 -0400, Markus McLaughlin wrote:
Chapter One
Introducing Fedora Core 6
Welcome to a brand new Operating System that shines above all of the
other Operating Systems available to choose from! Thank you for
choosing Fedora Core 6 to be your Operating System! What is an
Operating System, you ask? Well, it is an interface for a collection
of software all working together to bring you the information you need
to run tasks. Once you get past the Installation process, the GNOME
desktop opens with a screen consisting of a menu bar on the top, empty
space in the middle that can be used to display icons or graphics, and
a task bar that shows which “window” is open. With the KDE desktop,
there is one “windows”-like menu-bar on the bottom. Finally, with the
Xfce desktop, it is arranged in a different manner than GNOME or KDE.
This sounds complicated but all they describe is the screen you see
every time Fedora Core runs.
Here is a brief history of how it was developed. Fedora Core began
life as Red Hat Linux. It was one of the "middle-aged" Linux
distributions; 1.0 was released in November 3, 1994. It is not as old
as Slackware, but certainly older than many other distributions. It
was the first Linux distribution to use RPM as its packaging format,
and over time has served as the starting point for several other
distributions, such as the desktop-oriented Mandriva Linux (originally
Red Hat Linux with KDE), Yellow Dog Linux (which started from Red Hat
Linux with PowerPC support), and ASPLinux (Red Hat Linux with better
non-Latin character support). Since 2003, Red Hat has discontinued
the Red Hat Linux line in favor of its new Red Hat Enterprise Linux
for enterprise environments and Fedora Core for the free version. Red
Hat Linux 9, the final release, hit its official end-of-life on April
30, 2004, although the Fedora Legacy project continues to publish
updates.
Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the
community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. The name
derives from Red Hat's characteristic fedora used in its "Shadowman"
logo. However, the Fedora community project had existed as a volunteer
group providing extra software for the Red Hat Linux distribution
before Red Hat got involved as a direct sponsor. Fedora aims to be a
complete, general-purpose operating system containing only free and
open source software. Fedora is designed to be easily installed and
configured with a simple graphical installer and the 'system-config'
suite of configuration tools. The installation system includes an
option to use GNU GRUB, a boot loader, facilitating the use of Fedora
in conjunction with another operating system. Packages and their
dependencies can be easily downloaded and installed with the yum
utility. New releases of Fedora come out every six to eight months.
Fedora ships with GNOME and KDE, and spans 5 CDs or a single DVD.
Network installations are available from a single small 6 MB boot.iso
image. The installer supports installation via HTTP, FTP, and NFS, and
remote installation progress can be monitored via VNC.
The name Fedora Core distinguishes the main Fedora packages from those
of the Fedora Extras project, which provides add-ons to Fedora Core.
Fedora was derived from the original Red Hat Linux distribution. The
project envisages that conventional Linux home users will use Fedora
Core, and intends that it replace the consumer distributions of Red
Hat Linux. Support for Fedora comes from the greater community
(although Red Hat staff work on it, Red Hat does not provide official
support for Fedora). Fedora came about as a result of a new business
strategy which Red Hat implemented late in 2003 - Red Hat now
positions Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a business-oriented Linux
distribution, and all official support is for that distribution. Red
Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) releases are branched off Fedora Core,
which has led some critics to observe that Fedora Core users are in
effect beta testers for RHEL.
In some ways, it is true that Fedora Core is a testbed for RHEL but it
is a very good consumer Operating System in its own right. The
community develops and supports 90 percent of Fedora Core. It is good
to have a major sponsor such as Red Hat so Fedora will be around for a
long long time. You can trust Fedora to be YOUR Operating System!
This needs a lot of revision, please offer constructive criticism and
good changes/additions to make it compatible with our efforts....
Good Night from Hudson, MA....
Mark McLaughlin
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