Hi folks! My name is Porfirio A. Páiz, I'm a Fedora Ambassador from Managua, Nicaragua [0]. I have been using GNU/Linux since 2011, Fedora was my first ever distribution, I started with Fedora 15 with the brand new GNOME Shell. As a Fedora Ambassador I have organized smalls events related to Fedora [1], taken part as speaker in the local events such as Release Parties and so on. I also enjoy helping newcomers to install Fedora in their laptops/desktops in Install Fests or Release Parties, as well as guiding them on their first steps. Now I would like to make my first contribution to the Fedora Magazine on a topic that really taught me a lot about the Fedora environment, the packages manager `dnf` and its way to install collections of packages by groups. I have been doing this since last year on an old Intel Pentium Dual Core with just 2GB of RAM Desktop. Basically I do a fresh minimal install of Fedora using the Fedora Everything netinstall ISO [2]. After it I install a very minimal set of packages, enough to have a working system capable of running a X server, a graphical login and desktop manager with a Window Manager like i3wm [3]. This is very useful for people with very limited computing resources, people willing to run a minimal set up for their netbooks, or even people needing to use a Raspberry Pi for basic stuff that requires a GUI. I want to write a step by step guide that describes what to do after the Minimal o Custom Install, how to provide a tethered USB connection for devices that lacks of a RJ45 port or people without access to a wired Internet connection, given the minimal install does not provide WiFi support after the install process due to its minimalist package selection; and finally what to install. I have seen previous post on i3wm [4] [5], but all of them assume that you already have a working system with a Desktop Environment. Also, I would like to help maintaining a Spin that would ship Fedora with i3wm, this is popular in other projects [6] and would be useful for many users running Fedora in a SBC. I have a bare idea on how to do this with the Fedora kickstarts files. Please let me know if this fits the Fedora Magazine goals or if I can help to write a, perhaps, Quick Doc. Thank you, Porfirio. [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Porfiriopaiz [1] https://porfiriopaiz.github.io/site/posts/2017/03/31/this-was-fedora-at-cs50x.ni.html [2] https://alt.fedoraproject.org/ [3] https://github.com/porfiriopaiz/scripts/blob/master/fedora/netinstall/i3wm/02-su.sh [4] https://fedoramagazine.org/getting-started-i3-window-manager/ [5] https://opensource.com/article/18/8/getting-started-i3-window-manager [6] https://manjaro.org/category/community-editions/i3/ _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
