system level application

[nonamedotc]

Again - What's your question here?

Since you say you are new, let me point out a few items.

1. http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
2. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/faq.ph...aq_fedora_help

[Chilly Willy]

...i have been given fedora as my OS and have to give a presentation on it...

This sounds like a "SCHOOL PROJECT" to me & as such, you need to do your "HOMEWORK" (aka - "study / research", as I already suggested)

Please note: if this truly IS for school, no-one here is going to do your homework FOR you. This forum (& many others) frowns upon anyone even asking them to do so, so you might as well bite the bullet & "crack the books". THEN you can ask the RIGHT questions & we can help with what you don't fully understand (& will gladly do so), but you have to do your part, FIRST!

Also, may I suggest reading some of the threads here that may be of what you don't fully understand & are similar in subject matter to what you are trying to do. Maybe that will get you started so you can get enough insight on this to know what to further look for.

[jpollard]

The the suggested reading should cover most things well.

After that the only special fedora features are the RPM software packaging system, and the list of pre-built packages. Though, come to think of it, systemd subsystem is fairly unique, with unique bugs.

Nearly all linux distributions are equivalent for a general introduction.

Fedoras main claim to infamy is being one of the more cutting edge distributions, a very short support lifetime, and as the testing phase for packages selected for Red Hat Enterprise distributions and its derivatives (CentOS, Scientific Linux, and a few others).