Technical details of a default Fedora 29 Workstation installation

This article is for those of you who do not want to install a how new operating system only to discover some technical details about the default installation like, disk layout, packages included, software versions and so on. Here we are going to review in several sections what is like to have a default installation of Fedora Workstation 29.

Software

The Fedora 29 Workstation you can have

• Xorg X server – 1.20.1
• GNOME (the GUI) – 3.30.1
• linux kernel – 4.18.16
• linux-firmware – 20180913 (87.git44d4fca9.fc29)
• QT – 5.11.1
• libc – 2.28
• gnu gcc – 8.2.1 / installed by default
• coreutils – 8.30
• dnf – 4.0.4
• cups – 2.2.8
• MySQL server – 8.0.12
• PHP – 7.2.11
• Go Lang – 1.11
• python2.7 – 2.7.15
• python3 (default) – 3.7.0 / installed by default
• perl – 5.28.0 / installed by default
• ruby – 2.5.1
• OpenJDK – “11-ea” 2018-09-25 / installed by default

Note: Not all of the above software comes installed by default.
Installed packages are 1613 occupying 5.9G space:

[root@localhost ~]# dnf list installed|wc -l
1613
[root@localhost ~]# df -h /
Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/fedora-root   49G  5.9G   41G  13% /

Security

1. Access control security policies – Selinux in Enforcing mode.

   [root@localhost myuser]# getenforce 
   Enforcing
   

2. Network firewall – Firewalld

   [root@localhost myuser]# firewall-cmd --list-all
   FedoraWorkstation (active)
     target: default
     icmp-block-inversion: no
     interfaces: enp5s0
     sources: 
     services: dhcpv6-client ssh samba-client mdns
     ports: 1025-65535/udp 1025-65535/tcp
     protocols: 
     masquerade: no
     forward-ports: 
     source-ports: 
     icmp-blocks: 
     rich rules: