Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-16 Thread 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

Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-16 Thread Sebastian Spiess
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:14 +1100, Dave Hall wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:46 +1100, Sebastian wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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 t

Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-16 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:46 +1100, Sebastian wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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

Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-15 Thread Paul Gear
Sebastian wrote: > 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? For non-LTS releases, you can only upgra

Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-15 Thread Barry Williams
Who are you with because even bigpond has a mirror. On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Sebastian wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > >

Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-15 Thread Sebastian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 he

Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-15 Thread Paul Gear
ch...@adebenham.com wrote: > With a limited download plan I'd actually recommend sticking with 8.10 > instead. And sticking with a good ISP that keeps a local mirror of Ubuntu, including updates (e.g. Internode, iiNet). Paul begin:vcard fn:Paul Gear n:Gear;Paul org:Liberty Systems & Software emai

Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-15 Thread chris
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 : Hi all, I'm looking int

beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-15 Thread Sebastian Spiess
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 w