Appendix I. Miscellaneous Linux Topics

From upgrades to headless operation to emulation—some topics, no matter how important, refuse to fit neatly into any one chapter. This appendix serves as a reference center for some of these need-to-know items.

Fedora Core 3

Released as this book was going to press, Fedora Core 3 has three main enhancements:

  • Upgrades of the GCC C programming compiler, the GNOME and KDE desktops, the Evolution e-mail client, and the CUPS printer management software suite

  • Support for Indic languages in both character sets and font rendering

  • Mandatory application of the Security-Enhanced Linux (SE-Linux) feature

The first two items don’t affect anything covered in the book, but SE Linux does. Applications that are registered with ...

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