[LUGSB] Pen drive - Getting Mandriva

[Avishay Traeger]

Skip Evans wrote:

> Thanks for all the suggestions to resolve my pen drive issue,
> I am still going through them, but also have decided it is time
> to upgrade, and rather than stay with Xandros, which I have not
> been completely happy with, I'll give Madrake(iva) a shot.

I've been using Mandrake for a while now, and I'm not very happy with 
it.  I'm actually going to switch during the summer if I have time 
(probably going to load FreeBSD and Ubuntu or FC along with my XPee).

> One quick question: What package manager does Mandriva
> use? Xandros is based on Debian, so uses apt-get, however,
> since Xandors rather locks you in to their own sources-list
> file, the packages you can get are rather limited. I know there
> are ways around this, but attempts to do so seem to often
> result in scrambled OS elements.

Mandrake uses urpmi.  It's a bit annoying because you have to keep the 
source lists up to date.  The list of packages is pretty limited as well.

Avishay