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      Mandriva Official Documentation

      Official documentation for extant versions of Mandriva can be found at doc.mandriva.com.   Documentation for the latest release may take some time to appear there. You can install all the manuals from the main repository if you have Mandriva installed - files are prefixed mandriva-doc.
    • paul

      Forum software upgrade   10/29/17

      So you may have noticed the forum software has upgraded !!!
      A few things that have changed. We no longer have community blogs (was never really used) We no longer have a portal page.
      We can discuss this, and decide whether it is needed (It costs money) See this thread: Here

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  2. FAQ's Table of Contents

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  3. WM/DE: Window Managers and Desktop Environments

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  4. SI: Software Installation

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  5. BL: Bootloaders

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  6. TR: Troubleshooting

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  7. XD: XFree86, desktops, Gnome, KDE...

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  8. BQ: Board Questions

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  9. CL: Command Line Questions

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  10. GE: Games-Emulation

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  11. HW: Hardware, drivers...

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  12. IM: Installing and Configuring Mandrake

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  13. KC: Kernel Compilation

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  14. LT: Laptops

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  15. NT: Networking

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  16. GQ: General questions not covered in the other sections

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  17. RPM: About rpm usage (urpmi, rpmbuild...).

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  18. SE: Security, firewalls...

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  19. About the FAQ Forum (Please Read)

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  20. CL-09: Compiling C or C++ Programs

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  21. What does ... mean?

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  22. XD-04: Konqueror FAQ

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  23. SI-04: How To build your own Live CD with mklivecd

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  24. SE-03: Using applications needing root privileges

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  25. IM-15: How do I make my NTFS partition writable?

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  26. WM/DE-05: Fluxbox

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  27. WM/DE-02: KDE

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  28. IM-03: How do I get more software for Mandrake?

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  29. WM/DE-04: XFCE

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  30. NT-06: How-To set up Samba Networking

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  31. WM/DE-01: X, WMs, and DEs

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  32. TR-05: How to Troubleshoot problems

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  33. SI-05: HOWTO: Personal Video Recorder

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  34. IM-14: Creating CD's from the FTP Tree

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  35. GE-03: HOWTO: Arcade Emulation

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  36. HW-02: Using Hauppauge WinTV PVR with Mandrake 10

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  37. HW-03: Lucent Winmodem drivers mdk10 Kernel 2.6

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  38. CL-08: File Creation

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  39. GQ-09: What are the benefits of / Why use Linux?

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  40. IM-13 How To Make a Boot CD

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  41. SE-02: Linux Security Overview

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  42. LT-01: PCMCIA wireless access for your Laptop

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  43. GE-02: How to install winex from cvs

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  44. CL-10: Basic Shell Scripting

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  45. BL-03: GRUB configuration

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  46. SI-01: How do I install tar.gz's and RPM's?

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  47. RPM-03: synthesis.hdlist.cz and hdlist.cz

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  48. RPM-02: How to use Urpmi & solving dependencies

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  49. BL-01: LILO Configuration

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  50. GQ-08: How to Create an ISO Image From a CD

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