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The First Time You Boot. The first time you boot Fedora, or any other Red Hat Distribution, you're taken through the first boot process. It comes after installation is complete but before the first time you log into the local system. The first boot Welcome Screen provides a brief overview of the process, which is also known as the Setup Agent. Read the introduction and click Forward. You're taken to a License Information screen, which provides the normal disclaimers, but just as importantly notes that the Source Code for Fedora 11 is licensed under the GPL, that's the GNU General Public License. I am not a lawyer so this interpretation is colloquial. It is not a legal opinion. In essence you could use Modify or Repackaged GPL if you so choose. All you need to do is provide credit to the original developers and make the Source Code publicly available. However, you're not allowed to violate any copyrights or trademarks. What is a copyright or trademark in Fedora 11 is a quest for lawyers and for Red Hat, so read as much of the disclaimer as you care to. If you want more information refer to this URL and click Forward to continue. The next step is to create a user. If you remember the installation process you did not create a regular user during that process, you just set up a password for the root administrative user. The user name is the name used for logins. The full name can be pretty much anything you want as it's a comment in the local authentication database. Of course, the password is entered twice, but if you want to go further you can set up network logins. Just click the Use network login button and it opens the authentication configuration window. Among those databases supported is that associated with the Network Information Service, that's the NIS, and the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, that's the LDAP, shown here. But that's beyond the scope of the regular local Desktop user, so let's cancel out and just create the user. And now let's head on to Date and Time. What you should do first is confirm that the date and time are reasonably accurate and that'll set the local clock. Next you click the Network Time Protocol tab and you could choose to enable the Network Time Protocol if you want the local system to be in sync with other systems, and that could be important for things like scheduling so if you select Enable Network Time Protocol Fedora's set up to support connections and Fedora developers have set up NTP servers on the noted URIs, technically these are Universal Resource Identifiers as opposed to Universal Resource Locators, but for our purpose they're essentially the same thing. You can set up Automatic Synchronization during the boot process if you have a reliable network connection. In addition, if your local system has something really accurate such as an Atomic Clock you could set up Use Local Time Source and once that's done you click Forward, there's a connection made to an NTP Server and your clock is synchronized. The next step is that you're presented with a Hardware Profile. If you're interested in nitty-gritty details, it's an excellent thing to review, and if you're interested in helping the Fedora Project and aren't concerned about privacy, I encourage you to send that profile to the Fedora Project. It can help the developers at Fedora customize their software to better meet the needs of all users. Whatever you choose click Finish and the boot process continues until you get to the first Login Screen.