Abstract
This chapter will guide the more unexperienced users through their first access to a Mandrake Linux system. We will describe the first steps to be taken and the early screens which will be displayed by the system. We will suppose that a standard installation has been performed, meaning that you did choose to start the graphical interface at startup, that your video card has been correctly configured, and that you did not choose to automatically give access to a particular user (see the installation guide in the Quick-Startup Guide for details).
So, if you have already used GNU/Linux at least a few times before, and you feel confident about what you should do now with your system, you can skip reading this section of the manual. But you should read it very carefully if this is your first GNU/Linux experience.