Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > TeXlive 2008 has a package manager too. I do not know the difference > between the two > distributions now.
The TeXLive package manager cannot do on-the-fly-installations yet. OTOH, TeXLive directly accesses CTAN, while MikTeX is bound to its own repository. So I guess TeXLive is slightly more up to date (and more complete). Jürgen