Re: What's all the hype over Ubuntu?

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Ian Chapman wrote:

 Well something else to throw into the pot along with the other answers,
on several occasions I've heard Ubuntu fans cite the fact it doesn't use
 rpm (ubuntu uses deb) as one of the main reasons they use it because
 they don't like the "dependency hell" of rpm. Personally I think that
 view is at best outdated but each to their own. :-)

It's a ridiculous view point as in terms of dependencies rpms and debs
are almost equivalent.

Well I've never extensively used any deb based distro but then I've been pretty stuck with RH and friends for about that last 10 years since starting out with RH 5.1 rough cuts on an Amiga of all things :) But I must admit, I never really understood that viewpoint as yum has basically eliminated "dependency hell" and wondered what was magically different about deb.

Try to find something that isn't included in the standard repository. With fedora, you won't even find the names of additional repositories documented, so you ask here. You'll get several different answers and if you are looking for Sun Java, none of them will apply. For anything else, like vlc or the Nvidia driver, you add all the recommended repos and tell yum to install something and you'll get rpm conflicts. With ubuntu, you enable the pre-configured extra repositories, pick what you want and you are ready to run it.

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