[SGVLUG] Edubuntu vs. "just ubuntu"

[Claude Felizardo]

On 1/17/07, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- Of Alex Roston
> >
> > I put it on my kid's computer. It's wonderful. But don't use
> > the nightly build. Just download the current stable.
>
> I'm having trouble finding the "stable" version...
>
> Per the "download" page, you have two basic choices
>
>   6.10, the newest release
>   6.06 "LTS"

[snip]

> I believe I'd rather get the DVD version as I'm unsure of the
> "broadband" capabilities of the recipient [umm, 6 years old, remember?]
> but these seem to only be the "daily" build -- have I overlooked a link
> to a "stable" DVD version?

You said this is going on a machine that was running win98?  Does it
have a working DVD drive?

I tried ubuntu sometime last summer, it might have been the 6.06 -
dapper sounds familiar.  I seem to recall I had a problem determining
which version to download.  I think I tried the desktop version since
it was for my mother-in-law.  It looked really nice but Mandriva 2007
came out a week or two later so I went with that since everything else
I have is Mandrake.

Actually, thinking back on it, I wasn't able to get a modem card
working with ubuntu so that's why I tried mdk but it wouldn't work
either.  Turned out all of the pci modem cards i had were winmodem's
so i ended up using an external modem which works fine.  it just uses
up yet another AC plug.

Oh, that's another thing.  It looked like the version of ubuntu I was
trying assumed it had a broadband connection when ever you wanted to
install anything so I opted to download the 3 or 4 Mandrake install
cd's so every thing's available.  She's only using Firefox for surfing
and gmail so I only expect to have to lug the box home once in a great
while for updates.

claude