一个月以前在Ubuntu上订购了Ubuntu Linux 5.10发行版，今天终于拿到手了^_^。

在Linux发行版世界，大家最熟悉的几种发行版包括RedHat(或其开源版Fedora)、Debian、SuSE等，提到Ubuntu这个奇怪的名字大家都会感到陌生，在一个多月前我也不例外。Ubuntu是一个基于Debian的Linux操作系统发行版，它完全免费，这次我收到的Ubuntu光盘就是在其官方网站上免费订购的。一次偶然的机会在’Ubuntu中文论坛‘得知Linux世界还有Ubuntu这个发行版的存在，并且可以免费寄送光盘介质，当时的我非常希望手中能有张Linux正式发行版光盘，曾经考虑过Fedora，但是由于缺少刻录条件放弃了。Ubuntu恰好让我的愿望得到满足。当时还有一个担心就是Ubuntu不是主流发行版，是否影响自己在Linux上的体验呢？我Google了一下，发现自己大可不必为此担忧，Ubuntu在Linux社区中的口碑还是很好的，而且还获得了’Linux Journal‘杂志评选出的’2005最佳Linux发行版’奖。

经过漫长的等待(大约一个月)，终于在上周三收到了邮局的国际包裹通知单，第一次收到外国寄来的东东心里还是蛮兴奋的。上周日兴致勃勃地去邮局取，到了之后才发现自己忘带身份证了，真是郁闷呀。就算好事多磨吧。今天终于看到了那个包裹，沉甸甸的，因为自己订了10张PC版、3张64-bitPC版和2张Mac版，不是我贪婪哟，在订购的时候，Ubuntu提示你订一份和订多份的邮寄成本没差多少，建议你多订几份。就因为这样，’Ubuntu中文论坛‘上专门设立了’分享区’以让那些订购了多份光盘的人可以分享出自己的订购成果。如果条件允许的话，我的多余光盘也是可以分享的，但起码要和我在一个城市，呵呵^_^。

由于我的本本硬盘空间太小，所以还不能马上进行我的Ubuntu体验，真遗憾呀！正在计划购入一大容量本本硬盘，所以只能等春节后再Share Experience吧!

Last night I watched the ‘Dialogue’ , which is a very pop ‘talk show’ TV program of CCTV2.  the topic of this issue is ‘how to make the world know China’. Zhao Qi-zheng and He Dele were invited as honored guests.

So far, China has become the 6th largest economic entity in the world. but how much on earth does the world know China? I have been in BBC Learning English discusion group for several months and there was a topic on China last November. People from other place of the world, most of which did not come to China,  told their impression of China. In their mind, China is a large country with huge population, long history and it is a socialism country in which people are lack of political freedom and not well educated. Some people even do not know the relationship among Mainland, Taiwan, Hongkong and Macao. During the ‘Dialogue’, a guest told us a story. he said when he first arrived in America, an american told him he was not like a Chinese. he was amazing and asked the american why he felt like that. the american said Chinese should wear gown like the actor in the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

all that above make a conclusion that the world does not know China enough or the world has a misunderstanding of China in some fields. Zhao Qi-zheng said the reason why the world know less of China is not simple. First of all, the Chinese character is difficult to study and understand. Compared to other characters in the world, Chinese charactor has more implications, which makes the traslation more hard and less accurate. Secondly, some media reports are not based on fact. The media here is a word in general, which includes TV, radio, paper, movie, internet and so on… For the some benefit some foreign media report negatively which makes some people misunderstand China. Last but not least, the behavior of some international corporations of China have a great direct influence on knowing China. these corps in foreign countries are representatives of China just like Mcdonald is a representiative of United States in China.

He Dele added a new point that reference book is also a tool to know China. As the editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica, he make his effort to make people around the world know a true China through the Encyclopaedia Britannica and now there are over 2000 issues about China collected in the book.

Making the world know China is not the responsibility of some people, but the responsibility of every Chinese people. Pay more attention to your daily life and you may find more chance to show a true China to the world.

[people]
Zhao Qizheng – the news office director of the council
He Dele – the editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica

[new words to me]
anchorman – 新闻节目主持人
honored guest – 嘉宾
gown – 长袍