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 to upgrade to a new > release... maybe to 9.10?
If you want to give her something solid and won't require upgrading so regularly, throw hardy (8.04LTS) at her. LTS releases are supported for 3 years and have longer release cycles. Wait for the .1LTS release to dodge the nasty bugs that seem to creep in at the end of an ubuntu release cycle. > 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'. Given what has happened recently with ma.gnolia and some blog platform, I wouldn't trust cloud solutions as your only backup option. If they go under or stuff something up, she doesn't know about and then something happens, she is left with nothing. I would suggest having some redundancy of providers if you wish to go down this road. > 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...) Internode have the largest number of ADSL2+ dslams of any ISP. I don't know about your mum's situation, but most of my family is more than happy with 512/128 from internode for $40 per month. I can't see that being considered pricey when you look at what you get for your money. With ISPs I have found it is a case of cheap, reliable, good customer service - pick 2. Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
