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The following guide contains the installation procedure for  Fedora 20 . This procedure was tested on a HP laptop with dual core AMD processor and 4GB of RAM using a USB external hard disk. I boot the Fedora Live from a DVD and install the entire OS on an external (USB) hard disk. For installation of Fedora 20 on virtual machine, please refer to  Install Fedora 20 on VirtualBox with Guest Additions . For netinstall, refer to  Install Fedora 20 using Netinstall . Creation of Media This time I burn a DVD from the ISO. If you prefer to create an USB drive instead, the procedure on creating bootable USB can be found on the  official Fedora documentation here . For details of creating a bootable USB drive, please  refer to my previous post here on creating USB drive . Installing Fedora 20 Start your computer. You might need to press extra key at the beginning so that you can boot Fedora 20 from DVD or USB drive. In my case, a HP laptop, I n...

When using Fedora 19 or Fedora 20 minimal install, you'll notice that some old command doesn't work anymore. Listed below are some of the changes and the essential commands that you may need. Networking The common network command ifconfig was replaced by ip. Previously you would use the command ifconfig -a to list all the active and inactive network device in your system. Now you can use ip link or ip addr . Old command to display all network devices (Deprecated) ifconfig -a New Command to display network devices ip link show ip link show up To activate a network device, you can still use the old command ifup and ifdown . You can also use the new command ip link Command to enable or disable network device s sudo ifup <device> sudo ifdown <device> sudo ip link set <device> up sudo ip link set <device> down Network Devices Naming There is a change in naming network devices. An Ethernet port previously known as...

This is the procedure for installing Fedora 20 using NetInstall method. For full installation of Fedora 20 on a computer, please refer to  Installation Guide for Fedora 20 . For installation of Fedora 20 on virtual machine, please refer to  Install Fedora 20 on VirtualBox with Guest Additions . For Compiz fan, please refer to the post  Install Mate Desktop with Compiz on Fedora 20 . This method allows you to download and install the latest software package from the repository, there is no need for software update after installation. Please note that it will take longer time for the installation to complete because the installer need to download every single package during installation. I usually use this method to install minimal Fedora 20 on a virtual machine since it does not take up very much hard disk space and memory. Creation of Media or Setting Up VirtualBox For creating a bootable USB, please refer to the  official Fedora documentation her...

This is the installation guide to install Mate Desktop with Compiz on top of existing GNOME Desktop or Cinnamon Desktop. If you prefer a clean Mate Desktop, please download a separate spin from Fedora. Please note that you need additional hard disk space to install Fedora 20 with Cinnamon and Mate desktop environment. For virtual machine users, please configure your virtual hard disk to have 15GB of disk space. For installation of Fedora 20, please refer to  Installation Guide for Fedora 20 . To install Fedora 20 on virtual machine, please refer to  Install Fedora 20 on VirtualBox with Guest Additions . Installing Mate Desktop To install Mate desktop use the command: sudo yum group install mate-desktop Once the installation is complete, logout and login with Mate session as shown below. You will get the desktop that is similar to GNOME 2. Note: Please note that you may have duplicate applications such as terminal, calculator and archiv...

This is the guide to install Cinnamon Desktop on  Fedora 20 . Installing Cinnamon Desktop Open a terminal window and issue the following command: sudo yum install cinnamon The previous command will install the basic desktop. To install all Cinnamon desktop related software use the command sudo yum group install cinnamon After installation you need to restart the system. There is  no logoff option under original desktop . This option will only show when there is more than one user created. You need to restart the system for single user.  Using Cinnamon Desktop On the login screen (shown below) click on the "gear" icon next to "Sign In" and select " Cinnamon " After login, the desktop is appear differently then GNOME. To launch program click on " Menu " on the lower left corner. Please note that you can configure the bottom panel to appear on top. To do that you need to launch  All ...