[ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

[Lucy]

On 08/11/2008, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
[snip]
> one of  the elderly people I help with ubuntu/Kubuntu (aged 85) did on one
>  occasion click the Version upgrade innocently going from LTS 6.06 to
>  the next version, and there were a few problems - which I later caught
>  up with ok, but it did make me think.
>
>  My current inclination is to consider getting such users to have a non
>  sudo account, but I would still wish them to do security updates
>  themselves, but not version upgrades.

It's possible to turn off the notification for the availability of a
new version.

Just go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources, select the
updates tab and the option is at the bottom of the window.