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New User's Guide Table of Contents

Part 0: About this guide

   Purpose and Audience
   Matthew Daniels

Part I: Fedora and Linux

   Introducing Fedora

   Introducing Linux

   Explaining open source

Part II: Starting up Fedora

   Installing the operating system

   Using GNOME

   Using KDE

   Important differences from Windows

   Important differences from OS X
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   Basics of finding and installing software

   What is a desktop environment, and which is for me?

Part III: Your Graphical Desktop

   Customizing look and feel

   Setting your background

   Selecting a screensaver

Part IV: Being Productive

   Office suites and editing documents
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   Setting up an email client
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   Setting up peripherals

   Managing the print server

Part V: The World Wide Web

   Browsing the web

   Using email

   Setting up instant messaging services

   Playing online games

   Transferring files online

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Everything above here should (read: must) be completed for Fedora 12. Focus on that stuff before moving on to what's below.

Part VI: Multimedia

   A word on freedom and codecs

   Syncing an iPod, Zune, or other media device

Part VII: Photos and Graphics

   Managing your photographs

   Photography tools

   Editing graphics with the GIMP

Part VIII: Staying Secure

   Backing up your computer

   A word on viruses and worms

   A word on administration and the root account

   The inherent security of Unix

   Fedora's security model

Part IX: Migrating from Windows

   Alternatives for Windows applications

   Running a Windows application in Fedora

   Running Windows inside Fedora

   Running Windows and Fedora on the same machine

Version Break

Everything above here should (read: must) be completed for Fedora 13. Focus on that stuff before moving on to what's below.

Part X: Migrating from other *nix-based systems

   Transferring user preferences

Part XI: The Command Line Interface

   Why bother to learn?

   Essential commands

   Understanding I/O pipes and redirection

   Survey of powerful commands

   Command line editors

   Bash and its alternatives

   Basic system administration

Part XII: Advanced software management

   Going beyond 'yum install'

   Introducing the RPM file

   Installing from source