Questions about Ubuntu

[Bruce Labitt]

Mark Komarinski wrote:
> On 09/18/2008 08:57 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
>   
>> What is unique or good about Ubuntu?  What are its advantages?  As I 
>> understand it is based on Debian.  Ubuntu uses a different package 
>> manager, does it really matter?
>>
>>     
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>> Here's the things that Ubuntu gets right, at least on the desktop:
>>
>> - restricted drivers (NVidia in particular) are built-in at install 
>> time.  You get notified that they're restricted and have the option to 
>> use the 'free' drivers.  With Fedora, you have to use livna or atrpms, 
>> which may be out of sync with what's current.
>>
>> - Ubuntu uses DEB, which turns it into a religious war that I'll 
>> sidestep by saying you can use some .deb files from Debian and 
>> vice-versa, but you can quickly find yourself in dependency hell.  Using 
>> DEB takes some getting used to compared to RPM, but there's plenty of 
>> documentation online to help out.
>>
>>
>> -Mark
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Does Ubuntu support ATI/AMD video cards out of the box?  3D drivers 
included?

Can one use apt with Ubuntu?  Does that get one out of most of 
dependency hell?  I thought apt was similar (I believe many say even 
better) to yum and yast.

-Bruce