Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 Edition, Eighth Edition

Chapter 2. Fedora Quick Start

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• The Fedora Desktop

• Getting Around Fedora

• Available Applications

• Keeping Your Software Up-to-Date

• Configuring Wireless Networks

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Part of the challenge of moving to a new operating system is moving beyond any preconceived ideas about how things should work. If you have been locked into a Windows environment and this is your first move to Linux, you might start out by hunting for the My Documents and My Computer icons on your desktop, but without much success because you won’t find them there. Likewise, if you are used to a Mac OS X desktop, you might feel somewhat lost without the presence of the Dock to help launch applications. No matter, though; in this chapter, you will ...