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Fedora Linux User Documentation

The Fedora documentation provides extensive information on how to install and use the Fedora operating system and the software packaged by the Fedora Project. Fedora is a large project. Therefore, the focus here is on basic explanations and references to detailed documentation of the various subprojects. A special focus is on making it easier for new users to get started.

Free Software has produced outstanding technical achievements and solutions over the past decades. Just one example is the Apache server, which is used today by the vast majority of websites and provides the entire Internet with information. This quickly overshadows a fact that Richard Stallman emphasized as early as 1997:

«The biggest deficiency in free operating systems is not in the software — it is the lack of good free manuals that we can include in these systems.” [1]

It is this spirit that inspires the Fedora documentation team to do the often tough and time-consuming work on our documentation.

You’ll find here a bunch of information:

First time with Fedora Linux? New users find here extensive information to get Fedora up and running

Do you already have a Fedora Linux edition or Spin up and running? You don’t need to reinstall your system to get the new release. Fedora has put a lot of work into making an in-place update reliable and fully automated.

Contains extensive information about new and modified features of the current release. Users are advised to skim this information to check if they may be affected by one of the changes or are now able to resolve an issue with a new feature

Fedora supports the current and the previous release. As a reference here is a quick link to the previous release notes.

In the top bar, you can select older release notes.

Are you new to Linux? Here we provide some facts, vocabulary, and links for a first orientation.

You may also look at Fedora Magazine, featuring often-updated articles of interest to Fedora users from beginner to expert, and from Raspberry Pi to the desktop to servers to the cloud.

Getting help

There are many places on the internet that can help you when you encounter a problem not described in this chapter: discussion boards, blogs, IRC, and more. Some of the more popular places where you can find help include:

• Ask Fedora — Fedora’s knowledge base and community-driven question-and-answer site, available in multiple languages
• The #fedora IRC channel on Libera.Chat — one of the main Matrix/IRC channels used by Fedora users, English only

• You may also look at Fedora Magazine, featuring often-updated articles of interest to Fedora users from beginner to expert
• Stack Exchange — an English language Q&A board, not specific to Fedora

The above list is by no means complete — you can find help in many other places as well. Additional information about available resources such as IRC channels and mailing lists is available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help.

Before you open a new discussion or ask anyone for help on IRC, you should always do some research on your own. If you are encountering an issue, there is usually a good chance that someone else ran into the same problem before you and published a solution somewhere. Opening a discussion about something already explained elsewhere, or asking a common question that has been answered many times before, is not likely to result in a friendly, constructive response.

When you ask for help troubleshooting problems related to the installation, you may be asked to provide log files generated by the installer. Consult the corresponding documentation to learn how to access a suitable log file.

Join the community

Fedora has a vibrant community. The meeting place is the Fedora Discussion Forum.

Fedora is a huge project. Some of us will remember when we first started getting involved in Fedora. It was not easy to get an overview and to find a way to contribute one’s interests and skills in the best possible way. Fortunately, we now have an initiative to pave the way for new participants and provide some guidance. Have a look at ‘Not sure where to start? Come hang out with us!’ and/or jump into ‘Welcome to Fedora’ activities.

How to help us and give you back a better working Fedora

The Fedora Documentation Project only actively maintains documentation for the most recent release and the one before it. We also preserve older documentation on this site for historical interest and to acknowledge the generous contribution of time and effort by many, many writers and translators.

Please help us to improve the documentation

We are always working to update and further improve this documentation. To do this, we rely on feedback. If you find errors, miss, or don’t clearly understand a piece of specific information, or have suggestions for improvement, open an issue at our documentation repository.

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Getting started with Fedora

The Fedora Project is a community of people working together to build a free and open source software platform and to collaborate on and share user-focused solutions built on that platform. Or, in plain English, we make an operating system, and we make it easy for you to do useful stuff with it.

Actually, we produce several operating systems, or editions anyway. The one that you’re most likely interested in, and the one that we’ll be focusing on, is Fedora Workstation. Fedora Workstation has a wide range of software that’s suitable for almost anyone. You can use it for home use like browsing the Web, watching streaming video, editing photos, and playing games. You can use it for work creating documents, crunching numbers in spreadsheets, or programming.

All of the software provided with Fedora is open source and free to download and use. You can even modify it and distribute it yourself, if you want—but that’s beyond the scope of this guide. We’re just going to focus on the new user experience and some «day two» stuff so you can acclimate to Fedora and start being productive right away.

Who this document is for

This document is for folks new to Fedora Workstation, or who’ve been using it a while and would like to get a little more background and tips on how to make the most of Fedora Workstation. We’re focusing on desktop use and common tasks like web browsing, streaming media, editing photos or audio, and all kinds of productivity tasks that you may want to tackle with your desktop or laptop computer. Typical daily computer usage, you might say.

What’s a Linux distribution?

Fedora Workstation is a Linux distribution, an operating system with the Linux kernel at its core plus the software you need to install it, manage it, and the applications that you want to use for daily work.

Fedora is one of many Linux distributions, and includes a lot of software you’ll find in many Linux distributions. For example, the GNOME desktop environment, and the Firefox web browser, LibreOffice office suite, and a lot of GNU utilities and so much more.

Understanding Linux

Linux is very different from other operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, the leading desktop OS. This section explains concepts about Linux and how it works, which help make it clear, for example, why Linux asks for various passwords.

Root

By default Linux creates the root user account. It is the highest level account on the system and is used for administration. It gives the user full permission to modify files, and start and stop critical programs (called processes) on the system. It is a security feature in Linux that limits normal user privileges only to those required for normal tasks.

For security reasons, the root account is disabled by default on Fedora Workstation. Instead, the default user will be added to the group ‘wheel’. Members of this group are able to acquire root permissions using the ‘sudo’ command. Whenever this user wants to make a system-wide change, such as stopping a fundamental program like the web server (httpd), the corresponding command is preceded by a sudo, e.g. sudo systemctl stop httpd . The sudo then asks for the password of the user, not of root.

Always when making system-wide changes, such as installing new software or starting/stopping fundamental programs required by the operating system. The user is prompted for the root password

The command line/terminal

Use the Terminal program to perform command line tasks. Benefits to using the command line include the ability to give multiple commands on one line, but it requires greater knowledge of Linux commands. Documentation published on this site, as well as various tutorials and guides on the internet and elsewhere, often makes use of these terminal commands.

First impressions

GNOME

GNOME, Fedora’s default window manager, is the underlying graphical user environment. It provides a visual front-end using a desktop analogy. When you log into Fedora, GNOME is started with a predefined set of icons and menus on the desktop.

The internet

Mozilla Firefox is the default web browsing application. It is accessed through Activities Firefox . Firefox is also available on other platforms such as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

E-mail

There is no longer a default email client bundled with Fedora, but you can install one by searching in Software.

You can choose Evolution. Use it to access e-mail, organize contacts, manage tasks, and schedule calendars. Evolution is similar in functionality to Microsoft Outlook.

Another choice for an email client is Thunderbird, developed by the Mozilla Foundation. It is a popular email client on multiple operating systems. It is used for handling email and newsgroups without the calendaring functions that Evolution provides.

Instant messaging

The Pidgin application is popularly used for instant messaging. The instant messaging protocols that Pidgin supports include MSN, AIM, IRC, and Yahoo. You can install Pidgin using Software.

Music & audio

Fedora provides built-in support for sound cards and playing music CDs. Applications to import audio from CDs and manage music files are available. Extracting audio from CDs and storing it in compressed format on the hard drive is one way to manage a music collection.

To extract, or rip, the music from a CD, use the Sound Juicer program. You can install it by searching for «Sound Juicer» in Software. By default, Sound Juicer encodes music files to the free and open OGG Vorbis format. Once music files are generated, use Rhythmbox to manage and play tracks. In addition to playing audio file formats, Rhythmbox is also used for streaming media from Internet radio stations.

Productivity tools

The office suite included by default in Fedora is LibreOffice, a well-known and mature collection of software. LibreOffice, includes a word processor (Write), a spreadsheet program (Calc), and presentation software (Impress). A simple image editing package (Draw) and a relational database (Base) are also available for optional installation.

Moving further

• Configuring an internet connection the battery icon in the top right corner of the screen, then selecting SettingsNetwork
• Configuring graphics cards / video drivers

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