Resources for New Users
Mandrake
Manuals
- Manuals included on course CDs, you can access them from more applications -> Documentation in the Mandrake menu. or you can download the PDF versions
There is also an extra manual that covers the Mandrake configuration tools, also available on the cds, the package name is mandrake-doc-drakxtools-en. Or you could read it online
Old Manuals
These extra manuals where written for Mandrake 9.0, they may be abit out of date but most of the information is still valid
Links
Packages
This are sources for extra Mandrake Packages, you should not install packages made for another GNU/Linux distribution.
you may want to learn how to use the command line package manager, check the documentation on http://urpmi.org
- Easy URPMI wizard helps you configure package sources from
- PLF which includes lots of packages that cannot be part of the Mandrake dsitribution due to complicated copyrights, they include multimedia software and codecs, peer2peer software, games, and lots of tools.
- Contrib collection of packages made by Mandrake users and contributed as part of the general Mandrake development process, tested and guaranteed to work.
- Main the full 4CD Mandrakepackages repository
the Mandrake users community also provides extra packages, you can get a list of sources from http://www.thebrix.org.uk but be careful these packages are not well tested.
Documentation
General
Application documentation
WebSites
Software