Chapter 9: Using the Internet and the Web

Overview

In This Chapter

• Understanding Internet tools

• Browsing the Web

• Communicating via e-mail

• Participating in newsgroups

• Using Gaim Instant Messaging

• Using BitTorrent cooperative software distribution

• Using remote login, copy, and execution commands

With your Fedora Core system connected to the Internet, you can take advantage of dozens of tools for browsing the Web, downloading files, getting e-mail, and communicating live with your friends . In most cases, you have several choices of GUI and command-line applications for using Internet services from your Linux desktop or shell.

This chapter describes some of the most popular tools available with Fedora Core for working with the Internet. These descriptions cover Web browsers, e-mail readers, instant messaging clients , and commands for login and remote execution. With expanded selections available in Fedora Extras, many specialty applications (such as BitTorrent file sharing) are now available to Fedora users in convenient RPM packages.