Did you know that a freshly installed Linux server can be hardened in less than 10 minutes? Here’s how!

These instructions assume an i386 to i686 system (32 bit) with, an "always on" LAN or broadband connection configured "DHCP" and at least 10 GB of free disk space for the Fedora partition. Instructions for dual booting Windows and Fedora are included.

These instructions assume an i386 to i686 system (32 bit) with, an "always on" LAN or broadband connection configured "DHCP" and at least 10 GB of free disk space for the Fedora partition. Instructions for dual booting Windows and Fedora are included as well as as a section on setting up an nVidia GeForce graphics card. For the most part the steps should be followed in the order that they were written as certain programs should be installed and certain configurations made in order to facilitate later steps. However after the base installation is complete additional user selected program installations are, of course, optional.

Yum is an automatic updater and package management tool for rpm based systems. Yum automatically computes dependencies and figures out what steps need to occur in order to install packages. It makes it much easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.

These instructions assume a dual boot Windows and Fedora i386
to i686 system with an nVidia GeForce graphics card, an "always on" LAN or
broadband connection configured "DHCP", and at least 10 GB of free disk space
for the Fedora partition. For the most part the steps should be followed in the
order that they were written because certain programs must be installed and
certain configurations made in order to facilitate later steps.