The following chapters introduce the applications available under Mandriva Linux, 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 (Seção 1, “Word Processor”) and spreadsheet (Seção 2, “Spreadsheet”) components.
The next section (Seção 3, “Managing Your Files”) discusses Konqueror to manage or share files. You can also browse the web with Konqueror. Then we guide you through basic printing operations (Seção 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 multiformat amaroK audio player (Seção 1.1, “amaroK Audio Player”), the KsCD CD player and KMix (Seção 1.3, “Using the KMix Mixer”), a simple mixer. Then we show you how to use popular open-source movie applications such as Kaffeine (Seção 2, “Movie Applications”) and how to burn music, data and even mixed data onto CDs using K3b (Seção 3, “CD Burning”).