[SGVLUG] Edubuntu vs. "just ubuntu"

[Emerson, Tom (*IC)]

> -----Original Message----- Of Claude Felizardo
> 
> On 1/17/07, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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?

Good point -- no, it doesn't, but I have the machine at my house where I
have a USB DVD drive (and actually, the computer is/should-be well
capable of "the latest" Microsoft offering, well, maybe not Vista, but
everything else)  The case is actually the mini-ATX case that looks like
a cube -- approx 8" wide x 7" tall, and maybe a foot long, so I know it
should have at least a 1ghz processor, maybe more.  Don't know the
memory config yet, but I'd imagine at least 512.

> 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 

That is what I figured, and why I'm considering the DVD version (should
have "most everything" that I'd likely put on this machine for her)
Once installed, I think I can copy the DVD .iso image to a file and
semi-permanently "mount" it (via loopback) so it is "always" available
in case I missed something