4. Introduction to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

In This Chapter

Curbing Your Power (Super-user/root Privileges)

A Tour of the Fedora/RHEL Desktop

Mouse Preferences

Using Nautilus to Work with Files

The Update Applet

Updating, Installing, and Removing Software Packages

Where to Find Documentation

More About Logging In

What to Do If You Cannot Log In

Working from the Command Line

Controlling Windows: Advanced Operations

One way or another you are sitting in front of a computer that is running Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. After describing root (Superuser) privileges, this chapter takes you on a tour of the system to give you some ideas about what you can do with it. The tour does not go into depth about choices, options, menus, ...

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