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* Anaconda memory requirements for Fedora 17 (08 June 2012)
 
* Anaconda memory requirements for Fedora 17 (08 June 2012)
 
*: "We dropped the requirement to 512 MB. Also the 'nomemcheck' parameter was added to disable the minimum check if people really want to try installing with 384 MB or 256 MB."
 
*: "We dropped the requirement to 512 MB. Also the 'nomemcheck' parameter was added to disable the minimum check if people really want to try installing with 384 MB or 256 MB."
===The Sugar Learning Environment is packaged in Fedora 17.===
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===Sugar Learning Environment===
 
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: <big>packaged in Fedora</big>
 
* From the Applications -> Add/Remove Software app, search for Sugar.
 
* From the Applications -> Add/Remove Software app, search for Sugar.
 
* Among all the packaged Activities select,  
 
* Among all the packaged Activities select,  
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: and any or all of the Activities.
 
: and any or all of the Activities.
 
: Sugar will be available in your Applications -> Education grid.
 
: Sugar will be available in your Applications -> Education grid.
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Sugar will run in a [[wikipedia:Xephyr|Xephyr]] window ('''Sugar in a window''') within the GNOME desktop environment. You will have full access to Sugar features, and may even run multiple instances. Networking bugs currently prevent collaboration with others in the jabber.sugarlabs.org server Neighborhood. Press <F1> to see the Sugar Neighborhood view.
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See [[The_Undiscoverable#Sugar-Emulator_Screen_Size_Adjustment|emulator screen size adjustment]].
  
 
=== PowerPC ===
 
=== PowerPC ===
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==[[File:Gnome_icon.png]] Fedora GNOME 3 shell==
 
==[[File:Gnome_icon.png]] Fedora GNOME 3 shell==
 
* See [[Community/Distributions/Fedora/GNOME desktop|GNOME 3 desktop]].
 
* See [[Community/Distributions/Fedora/GNOME desktop|GNOME 3 desktop]].
====Nice way to have GNOME desktop show====
 
:yum install gnome-tweak-tool
 
:In terminal: gnome-tweak tool
 
::File Manager-have file manager handle the desktop [  ON]
 
Now when you hit the Hot Corner in to left of screen
 
the Shell will alternate with the gnome desktop
 
 
:  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/GNOME_3.i686-1.3.0-Build1.3.iso
 
:  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/GNOME_3.x86_64-1.3.0-Build1.3.iso
 
 
:  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/
 
 
==== Boots 2 ways to GNOME 3 desktop====
 
# Boots as CD on ACER ASPIRE ONE N450
 
# Boots from dd Installer USB on ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 (see below)
 
 
===='''Install to HD'''====
 
:(use whole disk)
 
: Internal and External USB Hard Disks
 
: VirtualBox 4.0.4 HD (Starts in fall back mode only)
 
 
====Install Sugar-Desktop====
 
*Terminal #:
 
: yum install @sugar-desktop --skip-broken sugar-emulator alacarte sugar-surf
 
::(read is broken))
 
: terminal alacarte
 
:: [[Emulator/Full Screen|how to configure full screen]]
 
::Save
 
:"<alt> f2 r" to restart shell so changes in alacarte will be found
 
:Education/Sugar
 
::Browse-120 (will not start)
 
: use surf-115 instead
 
 
::;Note use at least 1024 memory
 
; Control panel/About my Computer: Fedora release 15 (Lovelock); Sugar: 0.92.1
 
 
; Gnome3-shell works on Booted USB -(not fallback mode)- with:
 
: ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 (Wireless OK)
 
: EeePC 1000HE (Wireless OK)
 
: MacBook Pro i7 (no wireless only wired network) hold down "C" key on power on wait for fedora screen to appear (10-15 sec)
 
 
====boot GNOME 3 fallback on XO-1 (liveusb-creator created USB)====
 
: [[Talk:Community/Distributions/Fedora#testing_os871_on_G1G1_XO-1]]
 
 
====Install LibreOffice====
 
; NEW as of 04/03/2011 5 modules of LibreOffice install from Add/Remove Software
 
 
===Fedora 15 GNOME 3 Ver 3.0.0 Virtual Box Appliance===
 
*download these 2 files and import them:
 
:http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/F15-gnome3_Desktop_sugar_cl-disk1.vmdk
 
:http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/F15-gnome3_Desktop_sugar_cl.ovf
 
; Starts in gnome3 fallback mode as VirtualBox does not support hardware acceleration
 
::user=sugar
 
::password=sugaruser
 
::root=sugarroot
 
:Cleared of sugar identity' starts on select color by clicking on XO icon
 
:use <== arrow to write your custom name then ==> to finish
 
*Sugar-emulator is in Activities/Education/Sugar
 
:::enter user password for keychain (sugaruser) on time and cancel until pop-up finishes (this is a bug in keychain in f15)
 
:Surf-115 is the browser as Browse-120 does not start (known bug)
 
 
 
===[http://http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15.RC3/Live/i686/Fedora-15-i686-Live-Desktop.iso Bootable Fedora 15 GNOME 3 CD on MacBook Pro]===
 
: Click this link ^to Download Desktop (gnome3-shell)
 
:OR download Multi Desktop DVD  http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15.RC3/Multi/Fedora-15-Multi-Desktop.iso
 
:Burn CD/DVD
 
:boot CD in Mac with :C: held down
 
::Multi DVD does not work in VirtualBox
 
 
===Make Installer Fedora 15 GNOME 3 USB with dd===
 
:2 GB Firefly USB disk in USB Slot
 
:Fedora-15-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop.iso on Desktop
 
:: http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15-Beta.TC1/Live/i686/Fedora-15-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop.iso
 
terminal:
 
$
 
cd /home/Desktop
 
su (or sudo su for ubuntu)
 
(password)
 
# dd if=Fedora-15-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop.iso of=/dev/sd(x) bs=4M
 
139+1 records in
 
139+1 records out
 
586153984 bytes (586 MB) copied, 94.9489 s, 6.2 MB/s
 
 
:Boot from USB
 
: log out when requested
 
: you are in gnome3-shell when Activities appears on left top bar.
 
::Wireless: right click icon on top bar Turn on wireless or Wired and connect; You will not see the pop-up dialog for wireless password: (BUG)
 
: To See this Dialog: Click:Activities/applications/accessories/files and it will appear.
 
: (If 3 entries appear on top bar; you are in the fallback mode of gnome as your graphic hardware does not support gnome3-shell)
 
*'''To install from booted USB''': Click Activities/Windows and the Blue Square Icon (Install to Hard Drive) on left panel.
 
: Answer questions; Use whole disk option; select the correct hard Drive ==> click (o) for grub on it and install
 
: When complete click on live system user hold alt key and select shutdown from menu
 
: reboot with HD; firstboot; user; Hardware Profile (smolt);Login
 
 
===Multiple Machine Caching with yum===
 
*http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching
 
:store rpms in a cache for installation to multiple Computers
 
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
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*http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.service.html
 
*http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.service.html
 
*http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation.html
 
*http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation.html
 
===Keyring Password Explained===
 
what do you have to enter when connecting to wlan, the keyring password or the wlan-password?
 
first i must enter the keyring password (root password here) and then i entered the wireless password
 
the keyring-password should not be your root password, it should be your users password so automatically unlocking could work
 
it may happen but during current session, after i reboot it appears again
 
ok, it is the keyring issue, assuming your distro has configured keyring correctly, changing the password should work
 
root pass?
 
change the keyring password to your users password
 
in settings ?
 
in seahorse
 
system settings?
 
as user (the login-keyring)
 
keyring is a way to store your "gnome" passwords
 
So, with one password (the keyring one), you "auto-type" the passwords it contains
 
if the keyring-password is your login password, it's automatically authenticated
 
keyring stores the passwords encrypted with the according keyring-password, and automatic unlocking works by getting the password through pam on login through gdm and then use  it to unencrypt the passwords - and that can only work if your login-password is the same as the keyring-password
 
 
why doesn't gnome 3 display "interactive dialogs" when applications ask for input
 
yes, also from gnome 3
 
when you run the shell script from nautilus, it doesn't display a dialog
 
"Enter passphrase for ..."
 
you can use zenity for that
 
try moving /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-session-check-accelerated.desktop somewhere else
 
didn't know you needed anything additional for that.. was it always like that or did gnome 2 have that by default?
 
maybe thats the seahorse/keyring integration, that stuff has changed quite a bit in 3.0
 
but i thought you meant a more generic approach of showing dialogs from scripts
 
i'm actually doing the ssh-add from a process spawned by a pygtk app
 
if it is only this specific case, you should probably still use keyring/seahorse (whatever should do that now) as it would not be passing around passwords unencrypted between processes (at least afaik)
 
worked!
 
do you somehow run gdm with a different driver or some weird setup like that?
 
so it's not possible to get the old behavior, and it needs some additional code to get it to work with seahorse/keyring?
 
which distro is this?
 
fedora 15 beta
 
i've tested the same code on fedora 14 and linuxmint (both gnome 2)
 
when the ssh-add {key_path} process is spawned, the GUI dialog appears asking you to type in your passphrase
 
ssh-add succeeds, and them the rest of the pygtk app continues
 
it doesn't even care whether the key is password protected or anything
 
i think there needs a daemon to be running that doesn't get started by fedora
 
this happens both in standard and fallback mode
 
try launching seahorse-daemon
 
 
 
===AutoStart===
 
  ln -s /usr/share/applications/xxxx.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
 
  don't remember if I had to manually add it to the startup apps (run
 
  gnome-session-properties) or using a preference in xxxx itself, but I
 
  have it running on login on my laptop. The icon shows up in the
 
  notification tray - mouse to the lower right corner to bring it up -
 
  this is where all legacy tray icons will show up.
 
 
===fix screensize in sugar-emulator===
 
terminal:
 
su -
 
(password)
 
gedit /usr/share/applications/sugar-emulator.desktop
 
edit line 6: Exec='''sugar-emulator -f'''
 
(see [[Emulator/Full Screen|how to configure full screen]])
 
save
 
Logout
 
login
 
 
===show desktop as icon in favorites===
 
add programs install "alacarte"
 
open alacarte
 
make new
 
application
 
command "nautilus Desktop"
 
save
 
Run from applications
 
Make favorite
 
 
===key shortcuts===
 
    * System (Windows) key: Switch between overview and desktop
 
    * Alt+F1: Switch between overview and desktop
 
    * Alt+F2: Pop up command dialog
 
    * Alt+Tab: Pop up window cycler
 
    * Alt+Shift+Tab: Cycle in reverse direction in the window cycler
 
    * Alt+`: Switch between windows of the same application in Alt+Tab
 
    * Ctrl+Alt+Tab: Pop up place cycler
 
    * Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R: Start and end screencast recording
 
    * Ctrl+Alt+D: Show desktop and raise windows back
 
    * Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down arrow: Switch between workspaces
 
    * Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up/Down arrow: Move the current window to a different workspace
 
Most keybindings can be viewed under the User Menu -> System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts
 
 
 
=== List of Autostart programs when starting gnome-shell===
 
    ALT F2 gnome-session-properties
 
 
===='''move intro screens that are too large for 800x600'''====
 
; alt+f7 and then the arrow keys
 
; alt+f8 Resize
 
; shift and arrow keys
 
:https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262546
 
It's worth nothing, for Metacity >= 2.13.2, that if the window doesn't have a
 
minimum size hint larger than the screen then Metacity will now force such
 
windows to be onscreen (by shrinking and moving them as necessary).  If the
 
window has a minimum size hint larger than the screen, then the user can use
 
'''alt+left-click-and-drag (or alt+f7 and then the arrow keys) to move the window
 
upwards''' (including moving the titlebar offscreen) in order to get to the
 
forward button.  Yeah, that's just a workaround for windows that are too large,
 
but it may be helpful information for those waiting for the UI changes to make
 
the window usable on 800x600 resolutions.  :)
 
clip....
 
why not use a keyboard shortcut. the "next" button is marked "forward" so i hit '''alt + f''' and guess
 
what, i was able to successfully install the program.
 
 
===Reload shell ALT+F2 r  (reload)===
 
: use to recover Applications lists if they go missing and after alacarte edits
 
 
===http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet===
 
:How to show user pictures on the GDM LOGIN screen
 
::Click "my account" on the top panel lets me edit the picture, and
 
::adding a picture will show it on the GDM login screen.
 
 
If you hold down Alt, a 'Shut Down' option appears in place of suspend.
 
 
===Alt+Tab switches between windows===
 
: hot corner = upper left switches between shell and running applications
 
: '''Alt+F2 allows entering a command to launch an application.'''
 
      the Shell simply always behaves so there's exactly one empty workspace.
 
      So when you start a session you have one workspace.
 
      As soon as you run something it goes into that workspace and
 
      you get a second empty workspace. As soon as you put any app into that
 
      empty workspace, a new empty workspace is created. If you remove
 
      everything from any workspace, it will disappear, so there's still only
 
      one empty workspace at the bottom of the list. So, there's never any
 
      need to manually add a new workspace. Pretty neat system.
 
 
===GNOME 3 is not expected to work in virtualized environments===
 
      I've just installed F15 alpha in a virtualbox machine and at the first boot I
 
      get a gnome 3 error explaining that it can't be fully initialised because 3D is
 
      not supported.
 
      GNOME3 is not expected to work in virtualized environments where
 
      hardware accelerated graphics are not available.
 
 
      From http://gnome3.org/faq.html ...
 
        The GNOME 3 desktop does require hardware accelerated graphics
 
        in order to provide a cutting-edge experience however, and the
 
        complete GNOME 3 experience will only be available on computers
 
        capable of this. Do not worry though: GNOME 3 will come complete
 
        with a fallback interface which will provide an excellent
 
        experience in the absence of hardware acceleration, and which
 
        incorporates many of the improvements that can be found in GNOME
 
        3.
 
        -------------------------------------------
 
      test Digest, Vol 85, Issue 60, Message: 7
 
        It's kind of a definition issue. GNOME *Shell* requires acceleration.
 
        But technically GNOME 3 does not; the fallback interface is still
 
        considered to be 'GNOME 3'. So you do need acceleration to get the Shell
 
        interface that's the 'big new thing' in GNOME 3, but still, if you don't
 
        have acceleration and you get the fallback interface instead, what
 
        you're running is still GNOME 3. Just GNOME 3's fallback interface.
 
        Adam Williamson
 
      Message: 8
 
        In any case, VBox with 3d accelleration enables and 128MB for video memory
 
        is not sufficient for GShell.  (VBox 4.0.4)
 
      Message: 13
 
        Also, on that last note, we should clarify that right now Shell doesn't
 
        work even in virtualized environments where accelerated graphics *are*
 
        available, e.g. VirtualBox with appropriate hardware and drivers. In
 
        theory it should be possible to make this work, but in practice it
 
        currently doesn't.
 
        So there's two angles we can approach this from; make Shell run with
 
        software GL, or fix up Shell to work with virtualized graphics
 
        acceleration passthrough. But it's not at all guaranteed that we'll
 
        manage either in time for f15.
 
 
        The minimum memory required is 1GB, due to anaconda changes.
 
        When you see "populate_rootfs" in the panic, it's caused by that.
 
 
===[http://sunglint.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/fedora-16-vs-macbook-pro-or-air/  Fedora-16-vs-macbook-pro-or-air]===
 
:click this link ^
 
:Add features to Anaconda to aid installation on Apple computers  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503149
 
 
=== MacPro and f15 Boot===
 
*Clips from #fedora-qa 04/04/2011 MacPro and f15 Boot
 
I have a macbook pro and have run fedora 14 on it with great success. 15 alpha, on the other hand, is not going well. The installation comes saying something about "installing  *** on EFI ***"
 
which i just dismiss/ignore, but when i try to boot after installation has completed, it wont. Just saying something like "no file found". Should i do something
 
special to install 15 alpha on a EFI system?
 
Yeah... you may have to run gptsync (I think that's what it's called)
 
no, you don't need to install again, but you will need to gain access to the installed partitions from another system (whether it's a Fedora live image)
 
referring to the gptsync that is provided be rEFIt
 
I formatted the partition to make space for a working distro. i have refit installed and my mbp boots to that at startup by default. that didnt make 15 alpha work. 14 did though
 
you may need to enter the boot partition tool from the rEFIt menu and when it asks to run gptsync, say yes
 
  okay. I will try to install again later and do that. Thank you so far. Will get back to you guys
 
I belive anytime partitioning changes occur on a macbook, you do need to run gptsync.  Since the EFI implementation by apple isn't fully compliant with the standard, extra  steps  are required
 
you don't need to reinstall ... just run gptsync from the rEFIt menu
 
just need to get your partitions synced up
 
 
 
See [[The_Undiscoverable#Sugar-Emulator_Screen_Size_Adjustment|emulator screen size adjustment]].
 
 
You may also collaborate with others in the jabber.sugarlabs.org server Neighborhood (Press <F1> to see the Neighborhood view.)
 
  
 
== Fedora OLPC ==
 
== Fedora OLPC ==

Revision as of 14:21, 30 June 2012

Fedora.jpg Fedora®
Fedora and the Infinity design logo are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc.


Fedora 18

  • Preliminary Notes:
NewInstallerUI
Anaconda Rework for f18
Secure Boot
Draft version - info

Fedora 17

  • Release:
https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all
Boot Options
  • Anaconda_Boot_Options Modified for f-17
  • Anaconda memory requirements for Fedora 17 (08 June 2012)
    "We dropped the requirement to 512 MB. Also the 'nomemcheck' parameter was added to disable the minimum check if people really want to try installing with 384 MB or 256 MB."

Sugar Learning Environment

packaged in Fedora
  • From the Applications -> Add/Remove Software app, search for Sugar.
  • Among all the packaged Activities select,
XO buddy.png The emulator for the Sugar Learning Environment
sugar-emulator-0.96.2-1.fc17
and any or all of the Activities.
Sugar will be available in your Applications -> Education grid.

Sugar will run in a Xephyr window (Sugar in a window) within the GNOME desktop environment. You will have full access to Sugar features, and may even run multiple instances. Networking bugs currently prevent collaboration with others in the jabber.sugarlabs.org server Neighborhood. Press <F1> to see the Sugar Neighborhood view.

See emulator screen size adjustment.

PowerPC

dracut-notes

UEFI Boot

Lenovo info

DynamicFirewall

"This feature adds support for a dynamically managed firewall that is able to handle firewall changes without the need to rebuild the whole firewall. The firewall daemon manages the firewall and has a D-BUS interface to interact with clients or services, that request firewall changes."

CD boots EFI to MAC and into a PC

no persistence when running from CD

Persistent boot USB

MAC :http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB
PC-Linux :http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads#GNU.2FLinux

Sugar is also available in a packaged Fedora Spin

Install with Sweets_Distribution

ADVANCED

Install with sweets

Very ADVANCED Install
Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Gentoo
Installation
Sweets_Usage
Sweets_Packaging


Anaconda(installer)Notes

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_updates.img_via_local_media
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates

Gnome icon.png Fedora GNOME 3 shell

Notes

Systemd

Fedora OLPC

The Fedora OLPC SIG, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC, will be importing further activities into Fedora, which might later be installed using

yum install sugar-*
Here's a video of the process http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKmrtlyyCFo
CJB suggests: as root, run: yum -y groupinstall "Sugar Desktop Environment"

The command to run Sugar is as root otherwise you may get this behavior.

sugar-emulator


For more information on the new release, please refer to the announcement here:

Mailing list

Download Mirrors and Spins

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist

Koji

Rawhide Testing

Common Bugs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?keywords=CommonBugs&keywords_type=allwords&field0-0-0=status_whiteboard&columnlist=bug_severity,priority,component,assigned_to,bug_status,resolution,short_short_desc&classification=Fedora&query_based_on=CommonBugs%3F&query_format=advanced&type0-0-0=notregexp&value0-0-0=http.*fedoraproject.*Common_F[0-9]*_bugs&product=Fedora&known_name=CommonBugs%3F