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- Provide a Fedora glossary of the top 40 Fedora concepts sorted by the most commonly used. For each concept include a brief description and the URL for the Fedora official documentation. Answer using MediaWiki format.
Creating a glossary for the top 40 Fedora concepts involves highlighting the core functionalities, components, and configurations that define Fedora, a popular Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora is known for being a cutting-edge distribution that incorporates the latest in free and open-source software. Below is an example glossary in MediaWiki format, focusing on the key Fedora concepts. Since specific URLs for each concept's documentation within the Fedora official documentation might vary and be updated, I'll provide a general link to the Fedora documentation where you can search for the most current and detailed information on each concept.
Simple Fedora Glossary
This glossary provides an overview of the top 40 Fedora concepts, offering insights into the functionalities and components that define the Fedora operating system. Each entry includes a brief description and a link to the official Fedora documentation for further exploration.
Fedora Workstation
- Description: A reliable, user-friendly, and powerful operating system for laptops and desktop computers, suitable for developers and other professional users.
Fedora Server
- Description: A powerful, flexible operating system that includes the best and latest datacenter technologies for server deployment.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/
DNF (Dandified YUM)
- Description: The next-generation version of YUM, a package manager for RPM-based distributions, providing faster and more consistent package management.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/dnf/
RPM (Red Hat Package Manager)
- Description: A powerful package management system used by Fedora for installing, updating, and managing software packages.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/rpm/
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment)
- Description: The default desktop environment for Fedora Workstation, focusing on simplicity and usability.
SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux)
- Description: A security architecture for Linux systems that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies.
Fedora Spins
- Description: Alternative versions of Fedora, tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application sets and customizations.
- Documentation: s://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Wayland
- Description: A modern display server protocol used by Fedora Workstation, designed as a replacement for X11 to provide more secure, efficient, and smoother graphics support.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/wayland/
Anaconda
- Description: The Fedora installation program, offering a graphical user interface for installing Fedora on a wide range of devices.
Fedora Silverblue
- Description: An immutable desktop operating system aimed at good support for container-focused workflows.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/
Fedora CoreOS
- Description: An automatically updating, minimal, container-focused operating system, designed for clusters but also operable standalone.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/
Cockpit
- Description: A web-based interface for managing Linux servers, making it easy to administer Fedora servers via a web browser.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cockpit/
Fedora Labs
- Description: A selection of curated bundles of purpose-driven software and content as curated and maintained by the Fedora Community.
- Documentation: s://labs.fedoraproject.org/
Flatpak
- Description: A system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux, including Fedora.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/flatpak/
Podman
- Description: A daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Fedora system.
Fedora Kinoite
- Description: An immutable desktop operating system featuring the KDE Plasma desktop, based on the same
technology as Fedora Silverblue.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-kinoite/
Btrfs
- Description: The default filesystem for Fedora Workstation, offering advanced features like subvolumes, snapshots, and built-in data integrity.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/btrfs/
Fedora ARM
- Description: Fedora's initiative to bring the Fedora distribution to ARM architecture, including support for Raspberry Pi.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/fedora-arm/
Systemd
- Description: The system and service manager for Linux operating systems, used by Fedora for managing system processes.
Firewalld
- Description: A firewall management tool for Linux operating systems, providing a dynamically managed firewall with support for network zones.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/firewalld/
Fedora Modularity
- Description: A project aimed at resolving the issue of software lifecycle mismatch by enabling multiple versions of software to coexist on the same system.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/modularity/
AppStream
- Description: A cross-distribution effort for enhancing the metadata available about software components in the Linux ecosystem, used in Fedora for application information.
- Documentation: s://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/appstream/
… (The list can be extended with additional Fedora concepts following the same format) …
Note: The provided URLs direct to the Fedora Project's official documentation. For more detailed and specific information about each concept, utilize the search feature within the Fedora documentation site.
This format offers a structured way to summarize key Fedora concepts, guiding readers to the official documentation for more in-depth exploration. Given the dynamic nature of Fedora's development, consulting the official Fedora documentation directly will ensure access to the most current and comprehensive information.
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Fedora, Linux-Unix, Fedora Package Managers (Fedora dnf, dnf, Fedora Snapcraft), Fedora AI (Fedora MLOps-Fedora ML-Fedora DL), Fedora Compute (Fedora K8S-Fedora Containers-Fedora GitOps, Fedora IaaS-Fedora Linux-Fedora on Windows), Fedora Certification, Fedora Data Science (Fedora Databases-Fedora SQL-Fedora NoSQL-Fedora Analytics-Fedora DataOps), Fedora DevOps-Fedora SRE-Fedora Automation-Fedora Configuration-Fedora Configuration Management-Fedora Terraform-Fedora Ansible-Fedora Chef-Fedora Puppet-Fedora PowerShell)-Fedora CloudOps-Fedora Monitoring, Fedora Developer Tools (Fedora GitHub-Fedora CI/CD-Fedora VSCode-Fedora Serverless-Fedora Microservices-Fedora Service Mesh-Fedora Java-Fedora Spring-Fedora JavaScript-Fedora Python), Fedora Identity (Fedora IAM-Fedora MFA-Fedora Active Directory), Fedora Integration, Fedora IoT-Fedora Edge, Fedora Management-Fedora Admin-Fedora Shell-Fedora CLI-Fedora Ops, Fedora Governance, Fedora Media (Fedora Video), Fedora Migration, Fedora Mixed reality, Fedora Mobile, Fedora Networking (Fedora Load Balancing-Fedora DNS-Fedora NAT-Fedora VPC-Fedora VPN), Fedora Security (Fedora Vault-Fedora Secrets-HashiCorp Vault Fedora, Fedora Cryptography-Fedora PKI, Fedora Pentesting-Fedora DevSecOps), Fedora Storage, Fedora Web-Fedora Node.js, Fedora Virtual Desktop, Fedora Product List. Fedora Awesome List, Fedora Docs, Fedora Glossary, Fedora Books, Fedora Courses, Fedora Topics. (navbar_fedora and navbar_fedora_detailed - see also navbar_dnf, navbar_rhel)
RHEL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RPM (Red Hat Package Manager), YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified), DNF (Dandified YUM), Kickstart, SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux), systemd, firewalld, Cockpit, Red Hat Satellite, Spacewalk, Anaconda Installer, Red Hat Insights, subscription-manager, Red Hat Customer Portal, Red Hat Virtualization, RHV (Red Hat Virtualization), KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), Libvirt, QEMU (Quick Emulator), VirtIO, GlusterFS, Ceph Storage, Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, OpenShift Container Platform, OCP (OpenShift Container Platform), OpenShift Service Mesh, CRI-O, Kubernetes Integration, etcd, RHEL Atomic Host, RHEL CoreOS, Red Hat CloudForms, Satellite Capsule Server, Puppet Integration, Foreman Integration, Katello, IdM (Identity Management), SSSD (System Security Services Daemon), IPA (Identity, Policy, Audit), Kerberos Authentication, Active Directory Integration, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), FreeIPA, DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions), chrony, NTP (Network Time Protocol), NetworkManager, nmcli, nmtui, Bonding Interfaces, Team Interfaces, Bridge Interfaces, VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network), ifcfg Scripts, iwconfig, iproute2, tcpdump, Network Performance Tuning, sysctl, ethtool, Tuned Profiles, Red Hat Performance Co-Pilot, PCP (Performance Co-Pilot), SAR (System Activity Reporter), iostat, vmstat, dstat, NFS (Network File System), autofs, samba, Winbind, Multipath I/O, MPIO (Multipath I/O), LVM (Logical Volume Manager), XFS (X File System), ext4, Btrfs (B-Tree File System), VDO (Virtual Data Optimizer), dm-cache, dm-thin, Red Hat High Availability Add-On, HAProxy, Pacemaker, Corosync, Fence Agents, GFS2 (Global File System 2), Cluster Suite, Cluster Resource Manager, DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device), Stratis, Red Hat Cluster Manager, Quota Management, Access Control Lists, ACLs (Access Control Lists), fstrim, fsck, tune2fs, xfs_repair, xfs_admin, Red Hat Software Collections, SCL (Software Collections), AppStreams, Modules, Repositories, dnf-automatic, dnf-plugin, createrepo, Red Hat Package Signing, gpgcheck, rhn_register, rhn-channel, EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux), Red Hat Developer Toolset, Devtoolset, GCC (GNU Compiler Collection), clang, gdb, valgrind, strace, ltrace, systemtap, perf, kexec, kdump, crash kernel, dumpfile, makedumpfile, dracut, initrd, initramfs, grubby, GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader Version 2), UEFI Secure Boot, mdadm, RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), disk partitions, parted, gparted, lsblk, blkid, iSCSI Initiator, tgtadm, iscsiadm, Multipath Configuration, partprobe, Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation, Persistent Volumes, PV (Persistent Volume), PVC (Persistent Volume Claim), CSI (Container Storage Interface), dynamic provisioning, overlayfs, tmpfs, cgroups, namespaces, SELinux Policies, targeted policy, mls policy, auditd, ausearch, auditctl, audit rules, rootless containers, container runtime, container images, container storage, OCI (Open Container Initiative), Podman Compose, Podman Generate Systemd, Container Networking, CNI (Container Network Interface), container logs, journald, journalctl, logrotate, syslog-ng, rsyslog, Red Hat Security Advisory, RHSA (Red Hat Security Advisory), yum-security, rpm-ostree, OSTree, dnf module reset, dnf module enable, module streams, profile switching, YAML, Kickstart Files, PXE Boot, diskless boot, pxe-server, syslinux, Red Hat Subscription Management, Red Hat Network, Satellite Synchronization, Insights Dashboard, Smart Management, Trusted Content, kernel live patching, kpatch, Red Hat Developer Subscription, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations, High Availability Clustering, Load Balancing Add-On, Red Hat Gluster Storage, Brick, Replica Set, Striping, BitRot Detection, Self-Healing, Geo-Replication, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization), RHEVM (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager), oVirt, VDSM (Virtual Desktop and Server Manager), 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Key Infrastructure), Certificate Authority, CA (Certificate Authority), TLS Encryption, OpenSSL, keytool, RHEL for SAP, Red Hat High Performance Computing, HPC (High-Performance Computing), Infiniband Support, Open MPI, Slurm, OpenStack, OpenShift Virtualization, Virtual Network Functions, VNF (Virtual Network Functions), Network Function Virtualization, NFV (Network Function Virtualization), Data Plane Development Kit, DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit), NUMA Pinning, SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization).
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL): RHEL Fundamentals, Red Hat Linux Inventor: Marc Ewing (Red Hat's founder) of Red Hat on July 29, 1994; RHEL, Linux-Unix, RHEL Package Managers (RHEL yum, yum, RHEL Snapcraft), RHEL AI (RHEL MLOps-RHEL ML-RHEL DL), RHEL Compute (RHEL K8S-RHEL Containers-RHEL GitOps, RHEL IaaS-RHEL Linux-RHEL on Windows), RHEL Certification, RHEL Data Science (RHEL Databases-RHEL SQL-RHEL NoSQL-RHEL Analytics-RHEL DataOps), RHEL DevOps-RHEL SRE-RHEL Automation-RHEL Configuration-RHEL Configuration Management-RHEL Terraform-RHEL Ansible-RHEL Chef-RHEL Puppet-RHEL PowerShell)-RHEL CloudOps-RHEL Monitoring, RHEL Developer Tools (RHEL GitHub-RHEL CI/CD-RHEL VSCode-RHEL Serverless-RHEL Microservices-RHEL Service Mesh-RHEL Java-RHEL Spring-RHEL JavaScript-RHEL Python), RHEL Identity (RHEL IAM-RHEL MFA-RHEL Active Directory), RHEL Integration, RHEL IoT-RHEL Edge, RHEL Management-RHEL Admin-RHEL Shell-RHEL CLI-RHELOps, RHEL Governance, RHEL Media (RHEL Video), RHEL Migration, RHEL Mixed reality, RHEL Mobile, RHEL Networking (RHEL Load Balancing-RHEL DNS-RHEL NAT-RHEL VPC-RHEL VPN), RHEL Security (RHEL Vault-RHEL Secrets-HashiCorp Vault RHEL, RHEL Cryptography-RHEL PKI, RHEL Pentesting-RHEL DevSecOps), RHEL Storage, RHEL Web-RHEL Node.js, RHEL Virtual Desktop, RHEL Product List. RHEL Awesome List, RHEL Docs, RHEL Glossary, RHEL Books, RHEL Courses, RHEL Topics. (navbar_RHEL and navbar_RHEL_detailed - see also navbar_ubuntu)
Linux, kernel, systemd, init, GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader), initramfs, ext4 (Fourth Extended Filesystem), XFS, Btrfs (B-Tree File System), zram, zswap, cgroups (Control Groups), namespaces, selinux (Security-Enhanced Linux), AppArmor, iptables, nftables, firewalld, auditd, journald, syslog, logrotate, dmesg, udev, eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter), KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), QEMU (Quick Emulator), VirtIO, LXC (Linux Containers), Docker, Podman, CRI-O, Kubernetes Integration, etcd, Linux Control Groups, LXD (Linux Daemon), Snap, Flatpak, AppImage, RPM (Red Hat Package Manager), dpkg (Debian Package Manager), APT (Advanced Package Tool), YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified), DNF (Dandified YUM), Pacman, Zypper, Portage, emerge, Nix, pkg-config, ldconfig, make, cmake, autoconf, automake, configure, GCC (GNU Compiler Collection), Clang, glibc (GNU C Library), musl, libstdc++, libc, binutils, GNU Coreutils, Bash (Bourne Again Shell), Zsh (Z Shell), Fish Shell, dash, sh, SSH (Secure Shell), sshd (SSH Daemon), scp (Secure Copy), rsync, SCP (Secure Copy Protocol), wget, curl, ftp, sftp, TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol), NFS (Network File System), CIFS (Common Internet File System), Samba, autofs, mount, umount, lsblk, blkid, parted, fdisk, gdisk, mkfs, fsck, tune2fs, xfs_repair, btrfs-progs, mdadm (Multiple Device Admin), RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), LVM (Logical Volume Manager), thin provisioning, lvcreate, lvremove, vgcreate, vgremove, pvcreate, pvremove, multipath-tools, ISCSI (Internet Small Computer Systems Interface), nvme-cli, dm-crypt, cryptsetup, LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup), dracut, GRUB Customizer, PXE (Preboot Execution Environment), tftpboot, Syslinux, LiveCD, LiveUSB, mkbootdisk, dd, cpio, tar, gzip, bzip2, xz, 7zip, zstd, rsyslog, sysctl, lsmod, modprobe, depmod, modinfo, insmod, rmmod, kmod, dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support), kernel tuning, kernel headers, kernel modules, patch, diff, strace, ltrace, ptrace, perf, htop, top, iotop, atop, vmstat, mpstat, sar, dstat, iostat, uptime, free, df, du, ps, pidstat, nice, renice, kill, pkill, killall, jobs, bg, fg, wait, nohup, screen, tmux, cron, crontab, at, anacron, systemctl, service, chkconfig, rc-update, update-rc.d, ntpd (Network Time Protocol Daemon), chronyd, hwclock, timedatectl, ntpdate, ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall), iptables-save, iptables-restore, fail2ban, denyhosts, tcp_wrappers, libcap, setcap, getcap, auditctl, ausearch, kernel parameters, boot parameters, sysfs, procfs, debugfs, tmpfs, ramfs, overlayfs, aufs, bind mounts, chroot, pivot_root, overlay2, network namespaces, bridge-utils, iproute2, ip, ifconfig, route, netstat, ss, arp, ping, traceroute, mtr, tcpdump, ngrep, nmap, arp-scan, ethtool, iwconfig, iw, wpa_supplicant, hostapd, dnsmasq, networkmanager, nmcli, nmtui, system-config-network, dhclient, dhcpd, isc-dhcp-server, bind9, named, unbound, nslookup, dig, resolvconf, iptables, nftables, firewalld, conntrack, ipset, snort, suricata, tcp_wrappers, rkhunter, chkrootkit, clamav, lynis, openvpn, strongswan, libreswan, openconnect, network namespaces, virtual ethernet, veth, tap interfaces, tun interfaces, vlan, bridge, brctl, ovs-vsctl, openvswitch, macvlan, ipvlan, bonding, teamd, network teaming, multipath, multipath-tools, route tables, ip rule, ip route, policy routing, qos, tc (Traffic Control), htb, fq_codel, cake, iptables NAT, iptables MASQUERADE, squid, socks5, privoxy, tor, iptables DNAT, iptables SNAT, iptables REDIRECT, conntrack, stateful firewall, stateless firewall, tcp_window_scaling, tcp_timestamps, tcp_sack, tcp_rmem, tcp_wmem, tcp_no_metrics_save, tcp_ecn, netem, ip6tables, ipset, ebtables, arptables, bridge-nf, br_netfilter, openvswitch, gre tunnels, ipip tunnels, vxlan, gretap, macsec, macvlan, ipvlan, wireguard, strongswan, libreswan, xfrm, ipsec, isakmpd, racoon, openswan, ikev2, ikev1, vpn tunnels, gre tunnels, vxlan tunnels, fou tunnels, ipip tunnels.
Linux Core Utilities commands - GNU Core Utilities command-line interface programs
This list should really only include standard universal commands that come with GNU Core Utilities.
- tac
This should really only include standard universal commands that come with all Linux distributions adhering to the Single UNIX Specification.
Really this is “Unix programs”, since there are no commands in Unix, they are programs except for shell builtins.
Unix command-line interface programs and shell builtins:
Unix user environment commands:
[[env]]
Unix text processing commands:
[[alias (command) ]] | [[ alias]]
Note: Networking is not part of SUS
Unix network utility commands:
Unix software development commands: Note: There are a huge number of Linux software development tools / Unix software development tools; this list should be restricted to ones that are standardized as part of Unix, i.e., those marked SD, CD], or FD (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/help/codes.html) within the Unix/POSIX specifications
See also
References
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