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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
• 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."

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

• 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:

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

• 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

[1]

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

http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4289

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

• Still very problematic-work in progress

Backup first

• http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/post_upgrade_cleanup

fedup

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp

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

yum

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

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