Fedora

<===GO to Fedora 18: released on 15 January 2013.

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Fedora 17

Download:

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

Torrent: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

Common Bugs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs
Fedora 17 Installation Guide - Very complete
Anaconda options

Boot 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,

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."