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Mageia Cookbook

The idea of the Mageia Cookbook is to supply simple cut-and-paste recipes to follow that will allow you to add a few interesting ingredients to Mageia that are either not available via the graphical install utilities or require some manual intervention to set up. We use the term "Cookbook" as the Mageia Logo is a bubbling Cauldron and most people know about cooking, so it's an ideal paradigm to use. These little how-tos are easy to follow lists of commands, similar in form to a recipe. We haven't laid them out like recipes, but maybe we'll do that at some time!

These recipes are, by necessity, mostly command-line and/or web-based. This is due to the wide variation in desktop environments available, which makes walking people through what button or menu to access quite difficult and the fact that these tools often do not have a graphical installation utility. If they did, there wouldn't need to be this Cookbook!

Contributing

You are welcome to contribute recipes. There are a few simple rules to follow:

• They should be for tools and applications that are NOT available via the Mageia graphical installation process, or require some manual configuration once installed.
• They should be mostly command-line-based recipes, to ensure the widest possible applicability to the desktop environment the user may be used to.
• They should WORK. You should only submit recipes that are tried and tested.
• You should be a Member of the Mageia Documentation Team. It's not hard to become a Doc Team Member. In fact, the more members we have, the better the documentation. The only qualification is a wish to improve Mageia's documentation and help others.
• What you put here must be YOUR OWN WORK and NOT copied from some other how-to. If it's available elsewhere, then link to that elsewhere, do not copy it here. If you take a how-to from somewhere else and MODIFY it to work with Mageia, then PLEASE REFERENCE the source! Writing documentation is not fun, so give the authors the recognition they deserve. Put yourself in their shoes. Rant over. Have a Nice Day. ;-)