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Beginning Fedora Desktop - 3rd Edition by Richard Petersen (Paperback)

Name: Beginning Fedora Desktop - 3rd Edition by Richard Petersen (Paperback)
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Get the most out of Fedora 28 Desktop, including free Office suites, editors, e-book readers, music and video applications.
About the Author: Richard Petersen holds an M.L.I.S. in library and information studies (UC Berkeley).
595 Pages
Computers + Internet, Programming

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Book Synopsis

Get the most out of Fedora 28 Desktop, including free Office suites, editors, e-book readers, music and video applications. In addition to those features, you'll also work with codecs, email clients, web browsers, FTP and BitTorrent clients, VoIP clients, and IM applications. The major Fedora 28 desktop spins are covered in detail, including the Plasma desktop (KDE), Cinnamon, Mate-Compiz, LXDE, Xfce, and LXQT.

This is your complete guide to using the Fedora 28 Desktop Linux release as your daily driver for multimedia, productivity, social networking, administrative tasks, and more. Author and Linux expert Richard Petersen delves into the operating system as a whole and offers you a complete treatment of Fedora 28 Desktop configuration and use.

With Beginning Fedora Desktop at your side, you'll discover how to install and update the Fedora 28 Desktop, as well as access various software repositories. You'll also learn which applications perform which functions, how to manage software, use of the desktop configuration tools, useful shell commands, and both the system administration and network tools.

What You'll Learn

Review the available desktop choices, including GNOME, KDE, and alternative desktops
Administer your system, add users, manage printers and perform backups
Configure network connections and firewalls with FirewallD
Access network resources with Samba

Who This Book Is For

Novice to intermediate users who are looking to install Fedora 20 as their primary computing environment.

From the Back Cover

About the Author

Richard Petersen holds an M.L.I.S. in library and information studies (UC Berkeley). He is the author of numerous books on C programming, UNIX, and Linux. His research background includes artificial intelligence applications to information retrieval. He has taught computer science programming and Unix at UC Berkeley.

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 10.0 Inches (H) x 7.0 Inches (W) x 1.26 Inches (D)

Weight: 2.35 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 595

Genre: Computers + Internet

Sub-Genre: Programming

Publisher: Apress

Theme: Open Source

Format: Paperback

Author: Richard Petersen

Language: English

Street Date: August 28, 2018

TCIN: 1011495938

UPC: 9781484238813

Item Number (DPCI): 247-31-4909

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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