Fedora™ 7 Unleashed

Chapter 2. Fedora Quick Start

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The Fedora desktop

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Getting Around Fedora

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Available Applications

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Keeping Your Software Up to Date

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Configuring Wireless Networks

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Part of the challenge of moving to a new operating system is moving beyond any pre-conceived ideas about how things should work. If you have been locked into a Windows environment and this is your first move to Linux, then you may start out by hunting for the My Documents and My Computer icons on your desktop, but without much success as you won’t find them there. Likewise, if you are used to a Mac OS X desktop then you may feel ...