Fedora Linux System Administration: Install, manage, and secure your Fedora Linux environments

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1:The Fedora Project
Chapter 1: Linux and Open Source Projects
	A brief history of Linux
	Understanding Linux distributions
	The Fedora Project
		The Red Hat contribution path
		Fedora’s mission and foundations
		Contributing to the project
		Fedora as a system administration tool
	The command-line interface
		The basics
		Guided example – releasing space in the filesystem
	Desktop environments
	Summary
	Further reading
Part 2:Workstation Configuration
Chapter 2: Best Practices for Installation
	Technical requirements
	Creating the boot media
		Fedora Media Writer
		Booting
	Partitioning local storage
	The first startup
	Package management
	Extra package selection
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 3: Tuning the Desktop Environment
	Technical requirements
	Initial system tuning
		Tuning the swappiness value
		Tuning the desktop experience
		GNOME Tweak Tool
	Customizing the panel and the taskbar
		The taskbar
	Making tasks easy with widgets
		Conky
	Handy applications with docks
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 4: Optimizing Storage Usage
	Technical requirements
	Understanding file formats and filesystems
		Creating a Btrfs filesystem
	Optimizing storage space size
		Space allocation check
		Using the btrfs-usage-report command
	Deep diving into Logical Volume Manager
		Differences between snapshots
	Discovering Stratis storage
		Creating a Stratis pool
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 5: Network and Connectivity
	Technical requirements
	Walking through the basics
		NetworkManager command-line interface (nmcli)
	Tuning wireless connectivity
		Identifying the device
		Finding the best quality network connection
		nm-connection-editor
		What about security?
	Improving network connectivity using a VPN
		IPSec-based VPN
		OpenVPN
		Configuring a VPN client with the Control Center
	Network performance monitoring
		nmon
		bpytop
	Summary
	Further reading
Part 3:Productivity Tools
Chapter 6: Sandbox Applications
	Technical requirements
	Inspecting sandbox applications
		SELinux sandbox
	Diving deep into AppImage apps
		Running an AppImage
		Developing AppImages
	Examining Flatpak applications
		Using Flatpak applications
		Building Flatpak applications
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 7: Text Editors
	Technical requirements
	Text editors and the command line
	Emacs overview
		The basics
		Mastering GNU Emacs
	Nano basics
	The mighty vim
		The basics
		Mastering vim
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 8: LibreOffice Suite
	Technical requirements
	Exploring office tools on Fedora Linux
		WPS Office
		ONLYOFFICE
		Calligra
		Fonts
		LibreOffice
	Getting used to Writer and Calc
		Writer
		Calc
	Creating slides and image management
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 9: Mail Clients and Browsers
	Technical requirements
	Mailing with Evolution
	Mailing with Thunderbird
	Trusty old Firefox
		Customizing Firefox
	Expanding browsing with Google Chrome
	Summary
	Further reading
Part 4:System Administration Tools
Chapter 10: System Administration
	Technical requirements
	The three laws of the SysAdmin
		The KISS principle
		Knowing the basic tasks
	A little bit of Git and programming
		Bash scripting
		Git
		The basics
	Don’t forget to back up
		Archiving and compression
		Version management with Git
	Automating with Ansible
		The basics
		First steps
	Never-ending study
	Summary
Chapter 11: Performance Tuning Best Practices
	Technical requirements
	Understanding kernel tuning
		Tuning kernel parameters
	Main tuning – CPU and memory
		Overview of monitoring tools
		Improving CPU usage
		Improving memory usage
	Don’t ignore storage tuning
		Improving storage space usage
	Boosting performance with network tuning
		Analyzing metrics
	Summary
Chapter 12: Untangling Security with SELinux
	Technical requirements
	Learning about mandatory access control
	Labeling and type enforcement
		How SELinux works
	How to troubleshoot SELinux issues
		Labeling
		SELinux needs to know
		Policy bugs
		Hack attack
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 13: Virtualization and Containers
	Technical requirements
	Virtualization with QEMU, KVM, and libvirt
		Management tools
		Streamlining the creation of virtual machines
	Using GNOME Boxes
	Discovering OCI containers with Podman
	Summary
	Further reading
Index
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