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German City Starts Distributing Free Ubuntu 12.04 CDs to Windows XP Users
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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**Familiar News, Right?**
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> “Hold on,’ some of you might be thinking. ‘This news sounds familiar. I thought the plan was to give away Lubuntu CDs?’.
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Well done on remembering. Lubuntu was, indeed, the original flavour of choice for this effort, as we first reported on back in June.
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At the time of the decision Munich council some solid reasons for choosing Lubuntu over regular Ubuntu:
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- It has lower system requirements
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- The layout is similar to that of Windows XP
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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.
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> ‘This change was brought about at the request of Canonical’
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According to Lubuntu member Nio Wiklund Munich this change was brought about at the request of Canonical.
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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?
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[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.
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My first-hand experience with Unity on an Intel Atom and 1GB RAM says that ‘running’ and ‘useable’ are two different things.
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But one voice isn’t fact, so I put the question to our Twitter followers. Here’s a selection of responses:
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> **@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.
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> — Ashutosh Mishra (@twitosh) September 14, 2013
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> **@omgubuntu** I had infinitely better performance with Lubuntu in an old netbook. It runs incredibly smooth. I have an Acer Aspire 1 from 2009.
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> — Dimitri Augusto (@DimitriAugusto) September 14, 2013
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> **@omgubuntu** An old acer pc with an mono-core amd sempron and 1 gig ram. Despite of the integrated graphics unity performed mostly well.
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> — Raphael Leroux (@IndriApollo) September 14, 2013
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Which do you think would have made the better offer? Let us know in the comments.
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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
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[2]:http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Direktorium/IT-Beauftragte/Aktuelles/linux_cd.html
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[3]:http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/10/ubuntu-12-04-lts-desktop-to-be-supported-for-five-years
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[4]:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu#System_Requirements
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[5]:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements |