Conventions Used in This Book

This book uses the following conventions:

The terms Fedora Core 4, Fedora Core, Fedora, and Linux are used interchangeably.

Text that you type and text that you see onscreen appear in monospace type:

 It will look like this. 

Variables and placeholders (words that stand for what you will actually type) appear in italic monospace.

Each chapter ends with questions pertaining to that lesson's subject matter, with answers from the author. Most chapters also include an exercise section and a quiz designed to reinforce that lesson's concepts.

By the Way

A By the Way presents interesting information related to the discussion.

Did you Know?

A Did You Know offers advice or shows you an easier way of doing something.

Watch Out!

A Watch Out alerts you to a possible problem and gives you advice on how to avoid it.

New terms appear in bold.

When a line of code is too long to fit on one line of this book, it is broken at a convenient place and continued to the next line. The continuation is preceded by a special code continuation character ().