Use

Using Mandrakelinux on a Daily Basis

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 (Section 1, “Word Processor”) and spreadsheet (Section 2, “Spreadsheet”) components.

The next section (Section 3, “Konqueror File Manager”) discusses Konqueror which can be used to manage or share files. You can also browse the web with Konqueror. Then we guide you through basic printing operations (Section 4, “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 amaroK audio player (Section 1.1, “amaroK Audio Player”), as well as KMix (Section 1.2, “Using the KMix Mixer”), a simple mixer. Then we'll show you how to use popular open-source movie applications such as Totem (Section 2, “Movie Applications”) and how to burn music, data and even mixed data onto CDs using K3b (Section 3, “CD Burning”).