Kudzu runs during your initial Red Hat installation to detect your system??™s hardware. It also runs
each time you start your Fedora or RHEL system so that if you add or remove hardware and restart
the system, it can try to determine what the hardware is and offer you the opportunity to configure
it or remove the driver, as appropriate.
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The highly touted hardware detection done by the KNOPPIX bootable Linux distribution
is based on the kudzu libraries from Red Hat, Inc. While the kudzu hardware detection
is quite good in Fedora and RHEL, if you don??™t need hardware detection from kudzu, you can save
significant time in rebooting if you disable kudzu.
Red Hat Desktop Look-and-Feel
To add a level of consistency to the desktops on its Linux systems, Red Hat created a look-and-feel
that is pretty much the same for both GNOME and KDE. In particular, consistent themes (backgrounds,
icons, logos, and other elements) are set up by default for KDE and GNOME desktops.
With the release of Fedora 8, the Online Desktop is now included??”the goal of which is to provide
a desktop suitable for running applications directly from the Web and storing information
online. This allows the desktop to be the window to applications such as Facebook, Gmail, and
other online applications.
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