In December 2006, the Fedora Linux distribution released its first official Live CD, which, thanks to an intelligent selection of applications, nicely advertises the best features of Fedora.

One of the first benefits of the deal is tighter alignment with the IcedTea project, which brings together Fedora and JBoss technologies in a Linux environment.

Listing 3 shows you how to do this on Fedora Core 4 Linux using the groupadd command; other UNIX systems have similar utilities or detailed instructions for adding new groups and users.