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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"


Usually, Shadow Passwords and MD5 Passwords are selected. However, if your network
supports LDAP, Kerberos, SMB, NIS, or Hesiod authentication, you can select to use
any of those authentication types.
 Bootloader ??”If you have multiple operating systems on your computer, or multiple
Linux kernels available to boot in Linux, you can use the Boot Configuration screen to
choose which to boot by default. For example, you might have Fedora Linux, SUSE, and
Windows XP all on the same hard disk. You could choose which would start automatically
(after a set number of seconds), if one wasn??™t selected explicitly.
 Date & Time (system-config-date)??”Set the date and time or choose to have an
NTP server keep system time in sync.
 Display (system-config-display)??”Change the settings for your X desktop, including
color depth and resolution for your display. You can also choose settings for your
video card and monitor.
 Firewall (system-config-firewall)??”Configure your firewall to allow or deny
services to computers from the network.
 Hardware Browser (hwbrowser)??”View information about your computer??™s hardware.
 Keyboard (system-config-keyboard)??”Choose the type of keyboard you are using,
based on language.
 Language (system-config-language)??”Select the default language used for the
system.


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