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* Mandrake General
* Mandrake Documentation
* Mandrake Updates, Bugs And Fixes
* Mandrake Contacts
* Mandrake Software
* Websites By Mandrake Users

Revision / Modified: Sep. 25, 2001
Author: Tom Berger

 

See also the article on Support.

* Mandrake General

Mandrakesoft has two main sites: linux-mandrake.com and mandrakesoft.com. Currently both are providing roughly the same content, with mandrakesoft.com usually being more up to date.

The Mandrake Forum is a 'site for Linux-Mandrake related tips, tricks, rumors, pre-announcements, semi-official news, and more', run by M's virtual community manager Denis Havlik. We often have some interesting discussions over there, so if you're into that sort of thing, you should definitely check it out.

* Mandrake Documentation

Linux-Mandrake provides online and print versions of the 'Reference Manual' and the 'User Guide' for the current release in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish.
These are the same documents which make up the 'mandrake-doc' RPM on your CD and can be accessed from the 'documentation' link in your desktop menu.

The Demo and Tutorial Center offers animated demonstrations of the capabilities of Linux-Mandrake and its tools, and how do you get something done with them.

Some member sites of the MandrakeUserNet ring host tutorials, too.

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* Mandrake Updates, Bugs And Fixes

You can get your important (read: mostly security related) updates via the 'MandrakeUpdate' utility. It will check what software is installed on your system and tell you for which there are new versions available and why.
For more thorough information, go to LMs Advisory Page.

If you have trouble installing ML, make sure to check out the Last minute fixes pages for Release 7.0, Release 7.1, Release 7.2, and Release 8.0.

If you think you've found a software error ('bug'), visit Mandrake's Bug Tracker (aka 'Bugzilla'), either to find out if there's already a fix for your problem available or to report a new problem. Please read the guidelines before submitting a new entry, this way chances are much better your problem will be dealt with swiftly.

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* Mandrake Mailing Lists

Apart from the 'community support' mailing lists, there are also lists for people interested in security and development.

The developer mailing lists cover different aspects of Mandrake's open development distribution, Cooker: 'cooker' (general discussion), 'cooker-ppc' (PPC port), 'cooker-i18n' (internationalization and localization), 'cooker-Firewall' and 'changelog' (list of package changes). Every list's language is English.
Online archives are available for 'cooker' and'cooker-ppc'.

Focused on security are the lists 'security-announce' and 'security-discuss'.

To subscribe to one or more of these lists, you can either use the web form or send a mail to 'sympa@linux-mandrake.com' with the command subscribe [list name] in the body of the message.

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* Mandrake Contacts

Sometimes it might be necessary to contact someone at M directly. In this case, please refer to Mandrake's Contact Page.
Please make sure you are addressing the right person with your problem / question / suggestion / whatever, otherwise a lot of time might get wasted in forwarding these mails internally ...

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* Mandrake Software

You can keep your Mandrake Linux distribution up to date by using the 'MandrakeUpdate' program installed on your box. Notice however, that these updates only cover security issues, severe software errors or major updates.

Mandrake software is available from a number of FTP servers worldwide or the RPM repository at rpmfind.net.

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* Websites By Mandrake Users

Some Mandrake users provide websites which contain useful tips, tricks and software for Mandrake.

Some Mandrake developers maintain pages on people.mandrakesoft.com.
There's no index, you will have to know their mail account names on Mandrakesoft. For example: Guillaume Cottenceau has the mail address 'gc at mandrakesoft.com'. So you will find his Mandrakesoft web page on people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/.
Others run fully fletched websites, like Vincent Danen does on Freezer Burn.

You will find lots of other interesting sites in the MandrakeUserNet web ring.

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