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
  • Starters Guide
  • Command Line reference

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These extra manuals where written for Mandrake 9.0, they may be abit out of date but most of the information is still valid

• Server Configuration Guide
• Everyday Applications Guide

Links

• Mandrake Linux
• Mandrake Users Forum community for help and support
• Mandrake Community Wiki full of user contributed documentation and hints

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

• The Linux Documentation Project provides guides and howtos
• Bruce Perens Open Source Books series includes 10 free books, mostly on programming and administration
• List of Free Books covering mostly programming and specialized tools
• Rute a very popular free GNU/Linux book, starts with basics and explorse the details of the system and administration tasks.
• Advanced Linux Programming Free book covering GNU/Linux system programming in C and C++

Application documentation

• gimp
• Qcad
• Scribus
• OpenOffice
• Blender
• Audacity
• Inkscape
• Kdenlive
• Dia
• Hydrogen
• Ardour
• Cinelerra
• Avidemux
• GNUcash
• LyX Manuals and tutorials
• Planner

WebSites

• Newsforge GNU/Linux and FOSS news
• Freshmeat Tracks almost all software releases for GNU/Linux
• Distro Watch compares distros and tracks releases
• Arabeyes GNU/Linux arabization project
• linux compatible Latest Linux News
• linux.org great site for the new users and downloads,Documentation and news
• linux 4 arab arabian Linux users web site
• open surces magazin for arab talking about the open surces for arab and Linux news in arabic

Software

• OSS CD full of FOSS for windows, more broad than OpenCD