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Fedora 17

• Release:

https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all

• Torrent: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
• Common Bugs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs
• Anaconda options

Boot Options

f17 Install Guide Very Complete

• 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,

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.

• Fedora 17 Sugar on a Stick Spin download page
• See Sugar on a Stick.

PowerPC

• Fedora 17 PPC release notes

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

UEFI Boot

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

MAC: MacBook persistent SoaS v5 and SoaS v6 EFI Boot USB instructions

PC-Linux Downloads#GNU.2FLinux

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

• updated Nov 23 2012
• FOR TESTING ONLY

These are test composes to find bugs

DO NOT use to install on any important Computer Systems.

• anaconda NuUI installer is NEW and has bugs:

http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current

• A major feature of f18 is the development of newUI a new anaconda.

There has been a significant delay in releasing Beta as bugs have been fixed.

Latest Downloads

f18 Prerelease

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

http://mirror.uoregon.edu/fedora/linux/releases/test/18-Beta/

f18-Beta RC1 - These are all FOR TESTING ONLY

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Beta-RC1/

• Anaconda Defaults to LVM format from 18.23

f18-SoaS-Remix iso files-Not official

• These are presented to give testers advanced access to SoaS

The current live Soas builds do not start as listed on the f18 PreRelease page

• Built with livecd-tools and customized kickstart files: Build you own Remix with Fedora
• These are unofficial CD/DVD .iso files for testing
• i386:

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SoaS-Remix-i386.iso

• x86_64:

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SoaS-Remix-x86.iso

• USE liveinst command in sugar root terminal ("su") to install to VirtualBox; HD; or 8 GB USB

Kickstart files

• Customized kickstart files used to Build these .iso files

Install from Soas live CD/dd USB

In terminal application:

su
liveinst

Install Sugar 97.8

• Terminal:

yum groupinstall sugar-desktop
yum install sugar-emulator

• Start Sugar from Education/Sugar

Sugar

Build       fedora 18 release 18 (Spherical Cow)
sugar       0.97.8
firmware    V1.05

Sugar-Activities

abacus             39
browse            142
calculate          41
chat               77
clock              10
countries          33
dimensions         45
etoys             116
finance             8
get books          11
help               15
image viewer       53
infoslicer         15
irc                10
jukebox            28
labryinth          14
log                29
maze               21
memorize           43
moon               14
paint              43
physics            10
pippy              48
portfolio          26
read              104
record             96
ruler              19
speak              42
terminal           39
turtle art        160
typing turtle      30
write              79

• Jabber.sugarlabs.org does not see any avitars in f1 Neighbourhood view

More information

• Fedora 18 Feature List
• Fedora 18 Preliminary Notes:

NewInstallerUI, Anaconda Rework for Fedora 18, Secure Boot, Draft version info

Customize with kickstart files

• f18 anaconda will now promote a kickstart file for customization
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Chapter_3._Package_Selection
• Anaconda Boot Options: http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/doc/boot-options.html

sample /root/anaconda-ks.cfg

• After an install of f18 look for this file.

Put it in a USB stick and anaconda will use it to repeat install.

This file can be modified and still will work

• sample .ks for f18 Live desktop install

Autogenerated by anaconda

Can be used for multiple automatic installs

#version=DEVEL
# System authorization information
auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
# Network information
network  --bootproto=dhcp --hostname=localhost.localdomain
# Run the Setup Agent on first boot
firstboot --enable
ignoredisk --only-use=sda
# Keyboard layouts
keyboard 'us'# System language
lang en.UTF-8
# Installation logging level
logging --level=info
# Root password
rootpw --iscrypted $6$f/DeD7AZFW91051J$Av3OQOPsY8syofC6ysN63psWjHzH.Pdr7D/s3CTfNuYLm1jLlJ.ZyUzICMjBlXz4i88wm9MfNALVsBXXx1Kl3.
# System services
services --enabled="chronyd"
# System timezone
timezone America/Los_Angeles
# System bootloader configuration
bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda
autopart --type=plain
# Partition clearing information
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda

%packages
authconfig
chrony
e2fsprogs
grub2
system-config-firewall-base

%end

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

• Features http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop

Originally developed for Linux Mint

http://linuxfreedom.com/linuxmint/stable/13/linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso

(#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

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.3F

reported to work

test Digest, Vol 105, Issue 120 Message: 1 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:09:51 -0500 (EST)

I have used the advice of this link:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.3F
As I can see so far it worked ok (Fedora 17 -> Fedora 18 Beta) 

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18

Very Early to try this- It will most likly fail

fedup

http://ohjeezlinux.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/fedup-a-little-background/

Updating_GRUB_2_configuration_on_UEFI_systems

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2#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"

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

• http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc

Download Mirrors and Spins

• Mirror List: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/development/i386/

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist

• 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

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide#Direct_Rawhide_install_via_standalone_Anaconda

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)

Subpage index

• Fedora/Cinnamon desktop
• Fedora/GNOME desktop
• Fedora/MATE desktop
• Fedora/Sugar test cases