Questions about Ubuntu

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 11:02:23 EDT 2008


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at verizon.net> wrote:
> Does Ubuntu support ATI/AMD video cards out of the box?  3D drivers
> included?

  Yes, you simply have to run the restricted driver manager and 'turn them on'.

> 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.

  Yes.  I use it all the time to apt-get instead of going thru the
'user friendly' interfaces, due to my historical use of debian.

-- 
-- Thomas


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