> Another difference: in synaptic you can browse for packages. AFAIK you > can't do that with yum. > well considering yum isn't a graphic interface, you're right. if you want to search and look through things in yum, you can: yum list available yum search yum provides -sv -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list