Mandriva 2006 offers 12,000 free software packages -- take your pick. MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com) reports: Today you get a good overview of installing and removing software to and from a Mandriva Linux system using the MCC Software Management tab -- with a little bit of tutorial and how-to thrown in. Mandriva's Software Management tools make Installing and removing software easy, simple, and efficient -- as easy as just a few mouse clicks.

Mandriva has a great and easy to use set of GUI tools for installing new applications on your Mandriva Linux system, for removing software from your system, and for updating already installed software. They are part of the Mandriva Control Center (MCC) and are located in the Software Management tab of the MCC. These tools are RPM based. The Software Management tab in the Mandriva Control Center is one reason we rate Mandriva Linux as a good desktop Linux.

A big problem with trying to install software on a GNU-based Linux system has to do with something called dependencies. Mandriva's Software Packages Installation module transparently cleans up all that dependency mess.

We used the Mandriva Media Manager to add a Mandriva FTP mirror site to places where the Software Packages Installation module looks for available software packages. That opens access to . . .more than 12,000 packages in the full Mandriva 2006 tree on the Mandriva mirrors.

Check MozillaQuest.com for the full story and links!