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Most GNU/Linux distributions come with a ton of applications, development tools, and support for all sorts of fancy devices. But none of this is very obvious when you boot into KDE or GNOME for the first time. The menu contains a few apps but they are scattered about and don't have names that reveal what they do. The vast majority of tools on the system aren't even in the menus. This howto aims to help users to get acquainted with the tools available and have them up and running on their own. Instead of giving a list of programs you can run, this howto focus on tasks that you can do and how to get them done in GNU/Linux. People use computers to do things, not to run programs.

Intended audience

This howto is aimed at a complete newbie to GNU/Linux. The aim is to help a new user to find out how to do stuff with their shiny, new, just installed GNU/Linux operating system.Please note this document does not cover installation of Linux onto any type of computer. If your Linux distribution includes a paper manual you should consult the manual for detailed installation instructions.You can also use the Installation-HOWTO to get some help. If you have friends who are at ease with GNU/Linux you can ask them to help out with your installation problems.

So the rest of the HOW-TO assumes that you have a working GNU/Linux installation and can boot into your KDE or GNOME desktop.

Mailing the Authors

If you find any mistakes, please mail rajlist (at) rajshekhar.net . Please note that the email address has been mangled to avoid spamming. This how-to needs active participation from the readers and I welcome suggestions, praises and curses. Feel free to ask for help on a topic - just check that your question isn't answered here first . If you don't understand the any topic please tell us, so we can explain it better. General philosophy is: if you need to ask for help, then something needs to be fixed so you (and others) don't need to ask for help.

All emails (not spam) will be read. All flames will be sent to Timbuktu (that is what I call my trash can).

Our Distribution

Anirban and Raj Shekhar are using Red Hat Linux. John and Jason are using Mandrake. We have tried to keep things distribution independent as possible.

Copyrights and Other Delusion

(C) 2002 Raj Shekhar, Anirban Biswas, John Murray, Jason Barto. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

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