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German City Starts Distributing Free Ubuntu 12.04 CDs to Windows XP Users
德国城市开始免费向WinXP用户分发Ubuntu12.04 CD光盘
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Ahead of the severing of official support for Microsoft Windows XP next year, the German city of Munich have begun offering free Ubuntu 12.04 LTS CDs in select local libraries.
眼瞅着明年微软即将终止对WindowsXP的官方支持，德国城市慕尼黑已经开始向当地选出的一些图书馆免费提供Ubuntu12.04 LTS CD光盘。

![The Linux CD Distributed by Munich](http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/linuxcd-800_kl.jpg)

Around 2,000 discs, [to be given away](http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Direktorium/IT-Beauftragte/Aktuelles/linux_cd.html) between now and April 2014, have been produced.
当地政府已经准备好2000张左右的光盘，预计到2014年4月[分发完毕](http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Direktorium/IT-Beauftragte/Aktuelles/linux_cd.html)。

The initiative is aimed at preventing electronic waste from discarded computers that, though unable to upgrade to a ‘supported’ version of Windows, would continue to function fine with an alternative OS.
此举的初衷是为了避免因废弃电脑导致的电子垃圾问题。既然这些废旧电脑即使升级也跑不动新版的Windows系统，倒不如换一个操作系统，好让它们在岗位上继续“尽职尽责”。

And with some 20 million German PC users said to still use Windows XP the waste problem Munich hope to avert with this effort could be huge.
大约2000万德国PC用户仍在使用WinXP，慕尼黑政府想要通过此举避免的电子垃圾总数将是惊人的。

**Familiar News, Right?**
**这篇新闻是不是有点眼熟？**

> “Hold on,’ some of you might be thinking. ‘This news sounds familiar. I thought the plan was to give away Lubuntu CDs?’.
> 等等！有的同学可能注意到了，“矮油~这篇新闻听起来有点耳熟啊。我记得他们不是说要分发Lubuntu来着吗~？”

Well done on remembering. Lubuntu was, indeed, the original flavour of choice for this effort, as we first reported on back in June.
同学，你记性真好！没错，六月份的时候，我们的确报道过，他们要分发的是Lubuntu。

At the time of the decision Munich council some solid reasons for choosing Lubuntu over regular Ubuntu:
当时慕尼黑议会决定选择Lubuntu而不是Ubuntu确实有他们的理由：

- It has lower system requirements
- Lubuntu对系统配置的要求更低
- The layout is similar to that of Windows XP
- Lubuntu的界面看起来和WinXP很相似

But since our original report and the commencement of the programme this week something changed: Lubuntu was dropped in favour of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
但是从我们上一篇报道到本周该项目举办发布会，短短一段时间，他们确实改变了决定：放弃Lubuntu，选择Ubuntu 12.04LTS。

> ‘This change was brought about at the request of Canonical’
> ‘他们是被Canonical的人给忽悠了’
（译者注：Canonical公司是Ubuntu的发行商）

According to Lubuntu member Nio Wiklund Munich this change was brought about at the request of Canonical.
上面这句话出自Lubuntu成员Nio Wiklund之口，他说是因为应Canonical公司要求，慕尼黑政府才改变了决定。

While it’s hard to find fault with the choice of an OS that is [backed by 5 years of support](http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/10/ubuntu-12-04-lts-desktop-to-be-supported-for-five-years) - something Lubuntu lacks - is this Unity-toting release really the best option for those switching from a decaying OS on aged hardware?
Ubuntu有长达[5年的社区支持经验](http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/10/ubuntu-12-04-lts-desktop-to-be-supported-for-five-years)，这恰恰是Lubuntu所欠缺的，而Ubuntu发布的Unity环境更是老旧机器更换操作系统的最佳选择，很难说慕尼黑政府做出这样的决定有何不妥。

[Lubuntu is listed as needing](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu#System_Requirements) a CPU clocked at 700Mhz and 256MB of RAM. Ubuntu [developers say](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements) that a 700Mhz PC with 512MB should handle the modern Ubuntu desktop.
Lubuntu[至少需要](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu#System_Requirements)700MhzCPU和256MB内存。Ubuntu[开发者说](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements)700MhzCPU和512MB内存应该就能运行现代Ubuntu桌面系统。

My first-hand experience with Unity on an Intel Atom and 1GB RAM says that ‘running’ and ‘useable’ are two different things.
我亲自使用过Unity环境，使用的电脑Intel Atom处理器，1G内存，的确，“运行”和“能用”完全是两码事。

But one voice isn’t fact, so I put the question to our Twitter followers. Here’s a selection of responses:
但是我一个人说了不算，所以我把这个问题放到了传说中的twitter上，下面这些是我挑选的一些粉丝回复：

> **@omgubuntu** I have a Samsung netbook with 2GB RAM and single core Atom processor. 12.04 ran fairly okay on it, much better than 12.10.
> — Ashutosh Mishra (@twitosh) September 14, 2013
> 欧巴**@omgubuntu** 我有一台“韩国桑心”笔记本哦，单核Atom处理器，2G内存呢。12.04跑的挺好的呀，比12.10强多了呢思密达~
> —— 来自Ashutosh Mishra (@twitosh) 2013年9月14日


> **@omgubuntu** I had infinitely better performance with Lubuntu in an old netbook. It runs incredibly smooth. I have an Acer Aspire 1 from 2009.
> **@omgubuntu**大哥你好 俺2009年买了一台宏基Aspire1，这台老本跑Lubuntu那叫一个爽，极顺滑超流畅！
> — Dimitri Augusto (@DimitriAugusto) September 14, 2013
> —— 来自Dimitri Augusto (@DimitriAugusto) 2013年9月14日

> **@omgubuntu** An old acer pc with an mono-core amd sempron and 1 gig ram. Despite of the integrated graphics unity performed mostly well.
> 亲爱的**@omgubuntu** 我的老宏基PC配的是单核AMD闪龙处理器和1G内存。尽管人家是集成显卡，但是Unity环境表现依然给力哦~
> — Raphael Leroux (@IndriApollo) September 14, 2013
> ——来自Raphael Leroux (@IndriApollo) 2013年9月14日

Which do you think would have made the better offer? Let us know in the comments.
到底哪种选择更好呢？请在评论中告诉我！元芳，你怎么看？

via: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/09/ubuntu-12-04-lts-cds-munich-windows-xp

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[1]:http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/09/ubuntu-12-04-lts-cds-munich-windows-xp
[2]:http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Direktorium/IT-Beauftragte/Aktuelles/linux_cd.html
[3]:http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/10/ubuntu-12-04-lts-desktop-to-be-supported-for-five-years
[4]:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu#System_Requirements
[5]:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements