Sorry I haven't had a chance to look or reply; been a busy week so far (some travel, etc.). I'll take a look, hopefully have some time later today. Input from any others? Speak up, friends. :) On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 01:06 -0400, Markus McLaughlin wrote: > Chapter One > > > Introducing Fedora Core 6 > > > Welcome to a brand new Operating System that shines above all of the > other Operating Systems available to choose from! Thank you for > choosing Fedora Core 6 to be your Operating System! What is an > Operating System, you ask? Well, it is an interface for a collection > of software all working together to bring you the information you need > to run tasks. Once you get past the Installation process, the GNOME > desktop opens with a screen consisting of a menu bar on the top, empty > space in the middle that can be used to display icons or graphics, and > a task bar that shows which “window” is open. With the KDE desktop, > there is one “windows”-like menu-bar on the bottom. Finally, with the > Xfce desktop, it is arranged in a different manner than GNOME or KDE. > This sounds complicated but all they describe is the screen you see > every time Fedora Core runs. > > > Here is a brief history of how it was developed. Fedora Core began > life as Red Hat Linux. It was one of the "middle-aged" Linux > distributions; 1.0 was released in November 3, 1994. It is not as old > as Slackware, but certainly older than many other distributions. It > was the first Linux distribution to use RPM as its packaging format, > and over time has served as the starting point for several other > distributions, such as the desktop-oriented Mandriva Linux (originally > Red Hat Linux with KDE), Yellow Dog Linux (which started from Red Hat > Linux with PowerPC support), and ASPLinux (Red Hat Linux with better > non-Latin character support). Since 2003, Red Hat has discontinued > the Red Hat Linux line in favor of its new Red Hat Enterprise Linux > for enterprise environments and Fedora Core for the free version. Red > Hat Linux 9, the final release, hit its official end-of-life on April > 30, 2004, although the Fedora Legacy project continues to publish > updates. > > > Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the > community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. The name > derives from Red Hat's characteristic fedora used in its "Shadowman" > logo. However, the Fedora community project had existed as a volunteer > group providing extra software for the Red Hat Linux distribution > before Red Hat got involved as a direct sponsor. Fedora aims to be a > complete, general-purpose operating system containing only free and > open source software. Fedora is designed to be easily installed and > configured with a simple graphical installer and the 'system-config' > suite of configuration tools. The installation system includes an > option to use GNU GRUB, a boot loader, facilitating the use of Fedora > in conjunction with another operating system. Packages and their > dependencies can be easily downloaded and installed with the yum > utility. New releases of Fedora come out every six to eight months. > Fedora ships with GNOME and KDE, and spans 5 CDs or a single DVD. > Network installations are available from a single small 6 MB boot.iso > image. The installer supports installation via HTTP, FTP, and NFS, and > remote installation progress can be monitored via VNC. > > > The name Fedora Core distinguishes the main Fedora packages from those > of the Fedora Extras project, which provides add-ons to Fedora Core. > Fedora was derived from the original Red Hat Linux distribution. The > project envisages that conventional Linux home users will use Fedora > Core, and intends that it replace the consumer distributions of Red > Hat Linux. Support for Fedora comes from the greater community > (although Red Hat staff work on it, Red Hat does not provide official > support for Fedora). Fedora came about as a result of a new business > strategy which Red Hat implemented late in 2003 - Red Hat now > positions Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a business-oriented Linux > distribution, and all official support is for that distribution. Red > Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) releases are branched off Fedora Core, > which has led some critics to observe that Fedora Core users are in > effect beta testers for RHEL. > > > In some ways, it is true that Fedora Core is a testbed for RHEL but it > is a very good consumer Operating System in its own right. The > community develops and supports 90 percent of Fedora Core. It is good > to have a major sponsor such as Red Hat so Fedora will be around for a > long long time. You can trust Fedora to be YOUR Operating System! > > > > > This needs a lot of revision, please offer constructive criticism and > good changes/additions to make it compatible with our efforts.... > Good Night from Hudson, MA.... > > > Mark McLaughlin > > > -- > fedora-docs-list mailing list > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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