Conventions Used in Tutorials

Commands to be typed into a console, prompt, or command line appear bolded in the text. Sometimes, directory listings and other console stuff will be bolded.

Buttons or options to be clicked on with the mouse or typed on the keyboard are underlined in the text.

In most cases, filenames will be italicized. I may have not done this in a few tutorials. I'll slowly get around to fixing those that aren't.

I assume that my readers are using KDE, and all tutorials will be written as if the reader is somewhat familiar and comfortable with navigating the KDE desktop.

The terms console, command prompt, command line, and terminal are all pretty much interchangable and mean almost any method of accessing the classic Linux/Unix prompt from within the X Window System. Each tutorial will specify if X must not be running when executing a given command.

The words Linux, Mandrake, and MDK, are all interchangeable for most purposes, and all represent the distribution of Linux available from Mandrake.

If something is not explained here, contact me.


© D. Olson 2001-2003 -- Originally found on The Mandrake eXPerience