Fedora Wireless Network - Easy InstallationThe Fedora Project developed and Red Hat sponsored Fedora (which not very long ago was called Fedora Core) is a total, regular-purpose OS containing absolutely free and open source software. Fedora is a derivative of the former Red Hat Linux distribution and aims at replacing the consumer distributions of Red Hat Linux meant for those using their PC at home. Despite employing a number of Fedora developers Red Hat does not however provide the authorized commercial help for Fedora, this essential assistance comes instead from the greater community. New versions of Fedora are released every 6 months and is distributed by means of installable LIVE or DVD image (which are available only for PPC and x86, x86_64 architectures). Before the release of Fedora 7 the software was circulated as a 5 CD set. This system however is no longer used and the CD set has been substituted with the Live images. The program may also be installed over HTTP, FTP and NFS. Fedora's default desktop environment is GNOME. Apart from this KDE also comes with the KDE Live images and the DVD. The default loader for Fedora is GNU Grub. Easy installation and configuration is one of the very many features Fedora can boast of. A group of easy graphic and text installers constitute the configuration tools. Ext3 and LVM are the default file system. Fedora is supposed to be circulated by CD and DVD and it has only a small choice of packages. A number of software repositories are obtainable in the market today. Either of these extra software maybe used to finish the circulation. The authorized software includes an image of the complete system. The updates available with the new version include almost 8,000 packages. Apart from these official updates a number of unofficial repositories are also available in the market. These extra software are not packaged by Fedora usually due to copyright problems. The management of Software package is supervised by the yum utility. A number of graphical interfaces to yum namely “pirut” and “pup” are also included. A panel announcement applet, apt-rpm can also be utilized. A multi-lib competent version which is yum data able is also offered. The various community assistants who help maintain the package and Red Hat publish regular updates, which can be easily installed with these tools. As explained above fedora is no longer distributed through CD's and DVD's containing similar media for installation. The DVD disk when put in will begin the Anaconda installer that will permit you to install Fedora on to your computer. You are best advised to use the DVD for the installation method. The CD Rom's provided are what is called “Live CD”s” these can be booted to run basic Fedora 7 in memory. A few CD's are shipped with KDE. Most others however ship with GNOME. Both the installers however come with much less software than what is provided on the DVD. Also CD's need more memory to run. |