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 Main Benefits
- Highly versatile
- 7 CDs packed with thousands of the best Open Source applications.
- 2 printed manuals.
- 2 supplementary electronic documentation guides.
- 60 days of online support provided via MandrakeExpert.
Overview
Advanced system maintenance enabling powerful networked or remote handling
 The Mandrake Control Center provides a single convenient location to access all the important hardware and system configuration utilities. It includes an extensive selection of graphical utilities and wizards for quickly and easily setting up many popular services, including the Apache web server, Postfix email server, Shorewall firewall utility, and many others. The Mandrake Control Center also provides utilities for backing up important data and for scheduling jobs that must be run periodically.
URPMI, combined with RPMDrake and MandrakeUpdate, provide everything needed to easily install and uninstall software packages either with a few typed commands or with a few clicks of the mouse. The Software Management System solves software dependencies automatically and performs system security updates through Internet.
URPMI is one of the fastest software management system currently available.
Support for Wi-fi standard.
Heterogeneous environments support with Samba.
Zeroconf support (easy network configuration).
Webmin provides the ability to safely configure your system remotely through a secure web interface -- even through the Internet.
Comprehensive set of compelling applications
> Office and Internet
OpenOffice 1.0.2 is a full-featured office suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications. OpenOffice 1.0.2 is available in 20 different languages, it can read and write most types of Microsoft Office documents such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
Take your choice of several full-featured web browsers such as Mozilla 1.3, Konqueror 3.1 and Galeon 1.3.2.
Mozilla-mail, Kmail and Evolution 1.2.2 are world-class email clients supporting email encryption for enhanced privacy and security.
Make the most of the Internet with handy utilities such as instant messengers compatible with AOL, Yahoo and MS, along with a selection of IRC utilities.
> Multimedia
The GIMP 1.2.3 is the latest version of this world-class image editing application.
A large selection of scanners are supported which can be easily utilized with XSane and The GIMP.
Kontour is a vector drawing application similar to Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator.
Gphoto and XawTV lets you use digital cameras with Mandrake Linux.
XMMS 1.2.7 is a premier multimedia application which supports many sound and video formats such as MP3, OGG and MPEG-video.
Grip 3.0.5 is an easy-to-use program for ripping audio CDs.
Cdrecord 2.0.2 and XCDRoast are available for burning CD-Rs and DVD-Rs.
Xine 0.9.18 is a video player for viewing unencrypted DVDs.
> Development
GCC 3.2.2 features C, C++, Fortran 77, Objective C, Java and Ada 95 compilers.
PHP 4.3.1, Perl 5.8.0 and Python 2.2.2 scripting languages are also available.
Gtk+ 2.0 and Qt 3.0 libraries - along with KDE and GNOME libraries - are available for developing graphical applications.
Java bytecode can be run with Kaffe 1.0.7.
Kdevelop 2.1.5 is an Integrated Development Environment.
Choose from a large selection of editors such as the popular Vim 6.1, Emacs 21.2 and XEmacs 21.4
Substantial bundled support
60 days of online support via MandrakeExpert
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