A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, Seventh Edition

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4. Introduction to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

In This Chapter

Curbing Your Power (Superuser/root Privileges)

Logging In on the System

The GNOME 3 Standard and Classic Desktops

Working with the Desktop

Using the Nautilus File Manager

The Settings Window

Updating, Installing, and Removing Software Packages

Working from the Command Line

Getting Help from the Command Line

Password Security

What to Do If You Cannot Log In

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

Understand root privileges

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