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Fedora 17
- Release:
- Torrent: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
- Common Bugs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs
- 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.
PowerPC
Sugar is also available in a packaged Fedora Spin
Install with 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
Development
- Fedora 18 Feature List
- Fedora 18 Preliminary Notes:
- NewInstallerUI, Anaconda Rework for Fedora 18, Secure Boot, Draft version info
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)