Using the Internet with Mandrakelinux is very easy. And since it includes many mail clients and web browsers, you can choose the one really suits your needs.
Regarding web browsing, we will talk about Mozilla for various reasons. It is easy to use (in fact, a Windows version exists so you might have used it already; users accustomed to netscape will also find it familiar). It's also very integrated, which means it unites many applications into one. Notwithstanding the web browser (Chapter 8, Surfing with Mozilla), you can also read your e-mail, news from different forums, and use the ChatZilla IRC client. Hence, it is a powerful suite of applications which provide you with a unified interface. Since it's integrated in the Kontact PIM (Chapter 10, The Kontact Client), we chose to document KMail for e-mail, however (Chapter 9, Writing E-mails with KMail).