Getting Help On Configuring, Using, Maintaining Mandriva Linux

Documentation

• Online documentation : http://www.mandrivalinux.com/en/fdoc.php3
• Official Documentation

Mandriva provides online and printed 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 'mandriva-doc' RPM and can be accessed after installation from the 'documentation' section in your desktop menu.

The unofficial documentation gives you general information for all Linux distributiions.

Online help, Forums & Mailing lists

• Mailing lists http://www.mandrivalinux.com/en/flists.php3
• Archives http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/
• Forums
  • Mandriva Club Forums
  • English: Mandrivausers
  • LinuxQuestions.org
  • German: Mandrivauser.de
  • French: Hardware.fr
  • Dutch: MandrivaClub.nl
  • Spanish: Foro BlogDrake.net
• Wiki : The Mandriva Development Community Wiki (Cooker)
• Bug reports : Dev version (Cooker) http://qa.mandriva.com/

Mandriva Commercial Support

• Mandriva Support & Mandriva Professional Support

Linux Training

• Linux Professional Institute Courseware from Mandriva

http://store.mandriva.com/index.php?cPath=74&language=en

Tutorials & Useful links

• the MandrivaUserNet ring
• URPMI wiki
• Easy configuration for the software installation and update - EASYURPMI
• http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/eggnbacon/docs/urpmi-howto/index.html
• http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/walter/geek/rpm-howto.html
• Installing and configuring software on Mandrake Linux
• Mandriva installation and configuration tips
• Google Linux search
• For Screen shot driven How-To's try Linuxloader

Mandriva Expert

http://www.mandrivaexpert.com