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Configuring Your Printer and Internet Service

Before you begin using Linux, you'll likely want to configure both your printer and your dial-up Internet service (if you are a dial-up user) to make your Linux system fully operational.

In order to do this, you must log in to the root (administrative) user's account and use several Fedora Core 4 configuration tools. To log in to the root account, enter the word root into the Username box that you see in the center of your screen and press Enter. When the word Password appears in front of the box, enter the root password you selected when installing Linux into the same box and press Enter once more.

New to Desktop Environments? In this chapter, we gloss over the ins and outs of the login process and ...