Garrick's (hopefully) Helpful Mandrake Info

MDK 10.1 specific faq GO here for information specific to the Mandrake 10 Community release.

New User Page - A short statement to future Linux Guruz. The goal is to set a certain perspective about the journey you are about to make into Linux.

Thanks to AdamW for all of his terrific proofreading! Jan 12, 2004

RPM - Some things you need to know about before installing software. Read the URPMI FAQ next. Dec 14, 2004

URPMI - Mandrake's addition to the world of RPM. Read the RPM FAQ before reading this. Dec 22, 2004

Misc tips - System Administration, X Windows, Terminals, CD Burning, and a long DVD overview. Dec 28, 2004

File Compression - gzip, bzip2, and tar, oh my! Aug 25, 2003

Windows Filesystems - Getting to your NTFS/FAT/FAT32 filesystem on dual-booting machines. Jan 06, 2005

NAT - Overview for your basic home NAT or "Connection Sharing" setup. This guide leaves some specific implementation details for other software docs, but it will help figure things out. Jul 15, 2004

kill -9 - All you people that think "kill -9" is a good thing, or you want to know how to correctly kill processes, please read this. Sep 04, 2003

Kernel Source Prep - Preparing your kernel source. Jan 03, 2005

Nvidia Install - Installing NVIDIA's commercial drivers (this guide is mostly obsolete). Aug 10, 2003

MDK9.1 Ipsec Fix - How to fix the broken ipsec module in mdk9.1 (this issue is fixed in kernel-2.4.21-25mdk). Sep 04, 2003

Java - Installing Java in Mandrake. Jan 05, 2005