Using the Internet

Browsing and Surfing

Using the Internet with Mandrake Linux is very easy. And since it includes many mail clients and web browsers, you can choose the one really suits your needs.

Regarding mail and web browsing, we will talk about Mozilla for various reasons. It is easy to use (in fact, a Windows version exists so you might have used it already; users accustomed to netscape will also find it familiar). It is also very integrated, which means it encompasses many applications into one. Notwithstanding the mail (Chapter 10, Mail Client: Mozilla) and web browser (Chapter 9, Surfing with Mozilla), you can also read news from different forums, and use the ChatZilla IRC client. Hence, it is a powerful suite of applications which provides you with a unified interface.

We will go through basic configuration and utilization, as well as more advanced features of the mail and browser clients, such as the powerful encryption feature called Enigmail available for the mail client.