beta-live CD vs daily live CD

[chris at adebenham.com]

With a limited download plan I'd actually recommend sticking with 8.10 instead.
Generally in the last few weeks there are a fair number of large package updates (mostly just to finalise/no major changes but still resulting in big downloads)

2009/3/15 Sebastian Spiess <sebastian.spiess at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking into installing a new xubuntu box for my mum next week. I
> want to give the latest 9.04 xubuntu a spin on her 'new/refurbished'
> hardware.
>
> As I will be away from next week I can't install her the final release
> so it will be either the latest alpha or a daily live build.
>
> What would you recommend? I will test the latest alpha/beta and see how
> the hardware does but at some stage she will need to run the update.
>
> On a <500 MB plan downloading a whole distribution update will most
> likely leave her without any quota for the rest of the month.
>
> So would it be better to install the possibly latest daily live and hope
> that less packages change or does that not matter?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sebastian
>
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