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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,
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
- updated Oct 15 2012
- FOR TESTING ONLY
- These are test composes to find bugs
- DO NOT use to install on any important Computer Systems.
- anaconda 14.14 installer is NEW and has bugs:
Latest Downloads
- anaconda 14.14
- Anaconda 14.16
- Anaconda 14.18
Install Sugar 97.4
- Terminal:
yum groupinstall sugar-desktop yum install sugar-emulator
- Start Sugar from Education/Sugar
Sugar
Build fedora 18 release 18 (Spherical Cow) sugar 0.97.4 firmware V1.05
Sugar-Activities
write 79 memorize 41 read 99 physics 10 maze 21 pippy 48 dimensions 38 jukebox 23 irc 10 ok etoys 116 record 96 finance 8 calculate 40 get books 11 paint 43 terminal 39 countries 33 typing turtle 29 portfolio 26 image viewer 21 infoslicer 15 ruler 19 moon 14 help 14 speak 41 ok does not join labryinth 14 clock 8 log 29 abacus 35 chat 77 ok does not join turtle art 142 browse 139 ok
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
- 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 and Cinnamon-Desktops
- NEW Now available in Fedora in netinstall and DVD
- Nice Gnome2 or KDE alternate desktops
- Originally developed for Linux Mint
- (#mate on freenode IRC )
- F18 netinstall:
- chose MATE-desktop or cinnamon-desktop
- Add to Existing Gnome or KDE Install:
- root terminal
yum install @mate yum install @cinnamon
- Or:
yum groupinstall mate-desktop
Sugar in Cinnamon
yum groupinstall sugar-desktop yum install sugar-emulator
- Does not work in mate
- (mate is gtk2 non accelerated while cinnamon is gtk3)
Upgrade Fedora 17 to Fedora 18
- Very Early to try this- It will most likly fail
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)