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;DANGER (bug): Loses jabber connection if change name or color in sugar's MySettings/AboutMe after you set name and color on first run | ;DANGER (bug): Loses jabber connection if change name or color in sugar's MySettings/AboutMe after you set name and color on first run | ||
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===MATE-Desktop=== | ===MATE-Desktop=== | ||
Revision as of 20:38, 12 December 2012
Fedora®
Fedora and the Infinity design logo are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc.
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Fedora 17
- Release:
- Torrent: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
- Common Bugs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs
- Fedora 17 Installation Guide - Very complete
- Anaconda options
- Anaconda boot options modified for Fedora 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,
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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.
Fedora Sugar on a Stick Spin
Sugar is pre-installed in a minimal Fedora Spin.
PowerPC
Sugar via the Sweets Distribution
- Advanced
Install with sweets
- A very advanced installation method also available for Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Gentoo.
- Installation
- Sweets Usage
- Sweets Packaging
Notes
Fedora GNOME 3 shell
- See GNOME 3 desktop.
Dracut
- http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/dracut-notes/dracut-notes.html
- "Dracut is like 98% shell scripts, so you’re gonna need to know some sh/bash to do anything with it."
UEFI Boot
- Lenovo info
Dynamic Firewall
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/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
Anaconda (installer)
- 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
Systemd
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SysVinit_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Systemd_problems
- http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.service.html
- http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation.html
f17 Unity Desktop Port
- Note: Experimental
- Info: http://www.muktware.com/3961/unity-ported-fedora-using-opensuse-open-source-rocks-collaboration
- Repo: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Ayatana/Fedora_17/
Development
Fedora 18
- Click on this link ^ for Details on new Page
- updated Dec 12 2012
- FOR TESTING ONLY
f-18 Documentation
- DO NOT use to install on any important Computer Systems.
- anaconda NuUI installer is NEW and has bugs:
- A major feature of f18 is the development of newUI a new anaconda.
Tutorial:How to use newUI Anaconda in F18
- There has been a significant delay in releasing Beta as bugs have been fixed.
Latest Downloads
- f18 Prerelease Beta
- http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
- Links below are FOR TESTING ONLY
- f18-Beta-TC1
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-TC1/
- f18 smoke6
- http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/qa/20121212_f18-smoke6/ anaconda 18.37-2
- Anaconda Defaults to LVM format from 18.23
Sugar on a Stick f18 ʻŌhelo ʻai
Working f18-Nightly-SoaS.iso's
NEW--Satellit 11:40, 11 December 2012 (EST)
- 32-bit:
- http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-TC1/Live/i386/Fedora-18-TC1-i686-Live-SoaS.iso
- http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/5441/4745441/Fedora-18-Nightly-20121130.16-i686-Live-soas.iso
- 64-bit:
- http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-TC1/Live/x86_64/Fedora-18-TC1-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso
- http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/5442/4745442/Fedora-18-Nightly-20121130.16-x86_64-Live-soas.iso
- Koji-Latest Nightlys: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?owner=&state=all&view=flat&method=createLiveCD&order=-id
- DANGER (bug)
- Loses jabber connection if change name or color in sugar's MySettings/AboutMe after you set name and color on first run
MATE-Desktop
- NEW Now available in Fedora in netinstall only- DVD does not install working mate.--Satellit 13:32, 25 November 2012 (EST)
- Nice Gnome2 alternate desktop
- Originally developed for Linux Mint
- (#mate and #fedora-mate on freenode IRC )
- Fedora Download: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Beta-RC1/
F18 TC6 netinstall
- chose MATE-desktop or cinnamon-desktop
- Add to Existing Gnome or KDE Install:
- root terminal
yum install @mate-desktop yum install @cinnamon
- Or:
yum groupinstall mate-desktop
Sugar in Cinnamon
yum groupinstall sugar-desktop yum install sugar-emulator
Upgrade Fedora 17 to Fedora 18
- Still very problematic-work in progress
- Backup first
fedup
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp
- http://ohjeezlinux.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/fedup-a-little-background/
yum
Updating_GRUB_2_configuration_on_UEFI_systems
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
- Chris Ball suggests: as root, run:
yum -y groupinstall "Sugar Desktop Environment"
- Chris Ball suggests: as root, run:
The command to run Sugar is as root, otherwise you may get this behavior.
Launch sugar from a terminal or console session: sugar-emulator
Mailing list
Download Mirrors and Spins
- Currently building Spins: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
- 10 days of old spin builds: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?method=createLiveCD&owner=kevin&state=all&view=tree&order=-id
Koji
- Current http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/
- Nightly Compose http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?method=createLiveCD&owner=kevin&state=all&view=tree&order=-id
Rawhide Testing
Common Bugs
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common
For reference, you can query Bugzilla for bugs tagged CommonBugs:
- CommonBugs? (bugs with CommonBugs keyword, but do not yet have a link to the above page)
- CommonBugs+ (bugs with CommonBugs keyword and contain a link to the above page)