This guide describes my customisations done to improve the Fedora Linux 17 Desktop / Server to my preferences

1. Install Fedora Linux 17
2. Install Gnome  2 as describes here

Open the terminal and run:

su
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum -y install presto wget
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum install -y AdobeReader_enu dkms java redhat-lsb redhat-lsb-graphics redhat-lsb-printing flash-plugin pidgin google-chrome-stable firefox y qt-x11.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 libXv.i686 alsa-lib.i686  msttcorefonts