beta-live CD vs daily live CD

[Sebastian Spiess]

I'm and she is currently with AAPT but I might look into internode
again.

8 months ago I wanted to switch to iinet and they said there is no
(free) ADSL2+ line/port at our Suburb so stayed with AAPT.


On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:47 +1030, Barry Williams wrote:
> Who are you with because even bigpond has a mirror.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Sebastian <sebastian.spiess at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I thought about this a bit and while I wanted to give my mum the
> > latest bling of jaunty I honestly don't think she will care that much.
> >
> > So 8.10 it will be - at some stage she will need to upgrade to a new
> > release... maybe to 9.10?
> >
> > I will make sure here home is on a separate partition and I set up
> > some backup routine for her... maybe simply a dropbox 'mirror'.
> >
> > Regarding the ISP, yes I'd agree that the free quota for the updates
> > is very cool. But last time I checked Internode or iinet where either
> > pricey to change to or not available where I live (the exchanges
> > around me have all already the faster DSL only Narrabeen not...)
> >
> > Thanks for your thoughts,
> >
> > Seb
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> > 2009/3/15  <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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> >>
> >> Joan Rivers  - "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys
> >> were a toaster and a radio."
> >>
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