From mysql.com: " Please note that at this point only the Windows Beta version is available. Linux and OS X releases will be available in 2008."
If you look n the GUI tools section there are GUI tools to manage a database at least in a rudimentary way,
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html I was able to download the alpha version of workbench through openSuSe's package manager.
"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."- Stan Kelly-Bootle