Next select, the Office and Productivity installation. The reason for this is that the average user is not doing any Development and is not hosting a web server. Also select the Fedora Extras repository. Anything else you will add later when the machine is installed.

You can customize the Software selection if you want, but generally the selection is pretty good and contains all the essential part for our goal.Click on next and watch while the installer calculates what is all needed and then starts downloading the packages. The total installation of the default Office and Productivity took 45 minutes on a 8 mbit ADSL line.

Once everything is installed the machine will reboot and the “firstboot” wizard will start, which allows you to configure the system.

After agreeing with the license agreement (which is essentially the GNU Public License, or in other words that its all free :)) You are taken to the firewall selection screen.

This is where we want to select ENABLED and allowed ports only ssh, IF you even need that. If you do remote help for your parents then this is a good choice, if not, turn it off. The firewall (IPTables) is extremely good and they are quite well protected since there is no easy way for them to change the configuration (and they don’t need to!). Of course you can add services IF you have the need that need to be accessed ON the machine. This is not meant for services that they can access. The firewall will allow them to access pretty much any service (Windows File sharing, printing etc.) but nothing can access this machine, and that is the way it should be.

The next screen we want to take a look at is SE Linux. The SE stands for Security Enhanced and it is basically a set of policies on what programs and users are allowed to do. For this purpose, the quick Settings that should be changed are shown on the screen below. Both the FTP and the MEMORY section should be completely de-selected. everything else is fine.

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