Who are you with because even bigpond has a mirror. On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Sebastian <sebastian.spi...@gmail.com> 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 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.5) > > iD8DBQFJvctxMuBzgG5z7F8RAkgTAJ9GcCQlriavJA9u+rXBxY9pdjtPJQCdFCX0 > KxHw3w7dEOo4Wi2hnIG5NjQ= > =eJH9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > 2009/3/15 <ch...@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.spi...@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 >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-au mailing list >>> ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au >>> >>> >> >> Joan Rivers - "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys >> were a toaster and a radio." >> > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au >
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