Chapter 8 . (Web server) Running Fedora Core and Red
Chapter 8 . Running Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 279 The highly touted hardware detection done by the KNOPPIX bootable Linux distribution is based on the kudzu libraries from Red Hat, Inc. While the kudzu hardware detection is quite good in Fedora Core and RHEL, if you don t need hardware detection from kudzu, you can save significant time in rebooting if you disable kudzu. Red Hat Desktop Look-and-Feel To add a level of consistency to the desktops on its Linux systems, Red Hat created a look-and-feel that is pretty much the same for both GNOME and KDE. Of course there are some differences in color and logos, but a user can expect to find menus, panels, workspaces, and other desktop features in Fedora Core and RHEL systems to be very similar. System Configuration Tools Red Hat created a set of simplified, graphical tools for configuring and administering many basic administrative features in Red Hat systems. Using these tools, you can add printers, configure your network, add users, set up your sound card, and tune up your video card, to name a few of the features they cover. Red Hat s graphical configuration tools (which are described in Chapter 4) can be launched from the System Tools or Systems Settings menu or from the command line. Recently, the beginnings of these configuration tools command names changed from redhat-config to system-config. For example, the tool to configure your network in Fedora is now called system-config-network (instead of redhat-config-network). Going Forward with Fedora Core With the original Red Hat Linux, you could have the exact same Linux system for free (to run in your home or small business) that was being used in large-scale enterprise deployments. For just a few dollars, you could add official Red Hat support for that system, which included official security patches and upgrade paths for the future. Today, with the different free (Fedora Core) and subscription-based (RHEL) Linuxes from Red Hat, some of the same basic advantages hold true if you are a bit more adventurous. Because Red Hat Linux is such a successful operating system, many who have developed skills in using and deploying Red Hat Linux have rallied to support Fedora in areas where Red Hat, Inc. has bowed out. The following sections explore some of those support efforts. Note
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