diff --git a/sources/German City Starts Distributing Free Ubuntu 12.04 CDs to Windows XP Users.md b/sources/German City Starts Distributing Free Ubuntu 12.04 CDs to Windows XP Users.md index 262ef4f97e..c7eba239cd 100644 --- a/sources/German City Starts Distributing Free Ubuntu 12.04 CDs to Windows XP Users.md +++ b/sources/German City Starts Distributing Free Ubuntu 12.04 CDs to Windows XP Users.md @@ -1,63 +1,87 @@ German City Starts Distributing Free Ubuntu 12.04 CDs to Windows XP Users -德国某城市开始免费向WinXP用户分发Ubuntu12.04 CD光盘 +德国城市开始免费向WinXP用户分发Ubuntu12.04 CD光盘 ================================================================================ 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 本文由 [LCTT][] 原创翻译，[Linux中国][] 荣誉推出 -译者：[译者ID][] 校对：[校对者ID][] +译者：[Mr小眼儿][] 校对：[校对者ID][] [LCTT]:https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject [Linux中国]:http://linux.cn/portal.php -[译者ID]:http://linux.cn/space/译者ID +[译者ID]:http://linux.cn/space/14801 [校对者ID]:http://linux.cn/space/校对者ID [1]:http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/09/ubuntu-12-04-lts-cds-munich-windows-xp