Application Guide

This manual introduces you to a variety of applications shipping with openSUSE®. It guides you through using these applications and helps you perform key tasks. It is intended mainly for end users.

The manual is subdivided into the following parts:

Office and Collaboration

Use the office and collaboration software openSUSE offers, such as the OpenOffice.org suite, several e-mailing and calendaring programs, and applications for online conversations. Also find vital information concerning the management and exchange of data on your system: how to share files on the network, how to effectively search and encrypt data, and how to manage printers.

Internet

Find out how to use the Internet applications included in openSUSE, such as Konqueror or the Firefox Web browser, a download manager, or a news feed reader.

Multimedia

Get to know applications for graphics manipulation, management of digital photographs, sound manipulation and editing, and for CD and DVD writers.

Many chapters in this manual contain links to additional documentation resources. This includes additional documentation that is available on the system as well as documentation available on the Internet.

For an overview of the documentation available for your product and the latest documentation updates, refer to http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse111 or to the following section.