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.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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