This chapter is an introduction to the applications available under Mandrakelinux, such as file managers and external devices.
First, we explore the office suite domain. We discuss the basic uses of OpenOffice.org placing emphasis on its word processing (the section called “Word Processor”) and spreadsheet (the section called “Spreadsheet”) components.
The next section (the section called “Managing your Files”) discusses the versatile Konqueror application, which can be used to manage or share files. You can also browse the web with it. Then we guide you through basic printing operations (the section called “Printing and Faxing from Applications”).
Multimedia applications are a must for any OS to be considered as a personal workstation. We introduce you to the multi-format XMMS audio player (the section called “Using XMMS”), as well as Aumix (the section called “Using Aumix”), a simple mixer. Then we'll show you how to use popular open-source movie applications such as Xine and MPlayer (the section called “Movie Applications”) and how to burn music, data and even mixed data onto CDs using K3b (the section called “CD Burning”).