[wellylug] Not everyone pleased with new Mandrake renaming/release schedule

[jfouhy at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting Brent Wood <pcreso at pcreso.com>:

> Ummm, I have had much greater success with both YaST & urpmi/drakepkg
> to install packages than with synaptic or apt-get. A couple of years ago
> this might have been different, but that's my experience right now. I think
> RPM is working much better than it used to. I can download an RPM, double 
> click & install it, with all dependencies generally being picked up fine. So 
> why would I move?

I am a debian user who hasn't tried Mandrake or SuSE, so, some questions:

 - If I want to find a program to do something, I can type 'apt-cache search
<something>' and generally find some suggestoins.  apt-cache will show me more
details on the packages as well, and, because all this is cached, it's
super-quick.  Do RPM distros have anything equivalent?  Or do you have to go
hunting on google?

 - Upgrades?  'apt-get upgrade' will tell me what needs upgrading (possibly with
an 'apt-get update' beforehand to make sure my cache is up-to-date).

 - What is Mandrake or SuSE like if you don't want to use Gnome or KDE as your WM?

 - Menus?  What you install something, does it go into a sane place in your GUI
menu (which should work across all windowmanagers)?

-- 
John.