Fuduntu

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Fuduntu
Logo of Fuduntu
Fuduntu Desktop
Fuduntu Desktop
developer Fuduntu team
License (s) various
Current  version 2013.3 (April 2013)
ancestry GNU / Linux
↳ Red Hat Linux
↳ Fedora
↳ Fuduntu
Architecture (s) i386 , AMD64
Others Language: multilingual
Standard desktop: Gnome

www.fuduntu.org

Fuduntu Linux was a rolling release Linux distribution . The aim of the distribution project was to offer an aesthetically pleasing user experience with current applications, primarily for notebooks or netbooks , but also for desktop computers . The distribution contained a classic desktop with Gnome 2 . In addition to open source software , it also contained proprietary software such as Adobe Flash or Steam , which was made available for installation from their software repository . Fuduntu was optimized for low power consumption and offered tools to maximize battery life. Since Fuduntu was developed as a rolling release , users could continuously benefit from the latest software.

history

Fuduntu was founded by Andrew Wyatt launched to take advantage of Linux distributions Fedora and Ubuntu to unite and on a Asus Eee - Netbook to use optimally. Fuduntu was originally developed on the basis of Fedora, but has been using its own code base since the spin-off from Fedora 14 in early November 2011 . As a result, the packages created for the current Fedora versions could be incompatible.

In mid-April 2013 a public meeting was held to discuss the future of Fuduntu, which was endangered by two central developments: The Gnome 2 work environment and the GTK2 program library were out of date and received less and less support, and systemd was becoming more and more popular as a background program, which was not supported by Fuduntu. You had reached a dead end, could not provide the resources to overcome the hurdles and therefore decided to end the project. If there was originally still support until the end of September 2013, Andrew Wyatt announced on April 28, 2013 the final end of Fuduntu due to the sharp drop in user numbers. Shortly afterwards, all changes that had accrued up to then were published in a final version 2013.3.

Special properties

Because of the focus on low energy consumption, Fuduntu's / tmp and / var / log directories were on a RAM disk . In addition, the swap priority in the memory management of the Linux kernel was set to an unusually low value of 10 in order to reduce the frequency of hard disk access. In addition, Fuduntu included the Jupiter energy management applet developed by Andrew Wyatt for easy regulation of CPU performance settings, screen output, resolution, etc.

Similar to Ubuntu , the Fuduntu installation included software for one purpose:

The installation media also contained the following proprietary packages:

In addition to the Mac OS X- modeled dock , which was realized with the Cairo Dock software , the icon theme called Faenza Cupertino was striking in the graphic design of Fuduntu . It gave the desktop the typical Fuduntu look with its strictly square icons.

Fuduntu project

The Fuduntu distribution was a community project with democratic decision making. Despite the development as a rolling release, the developers regularly published "quarterly release media". These were installation media that reflected the current state of development.

Around 18 people belonged to the development team, the management team of the project consisted of the following members: (As of November 2012)

  • Andrew Wyatt, project manager
  • Randy Adams (Crandy2), Head of Support Team
  • Noah Hall (Enalicho), Head of Development Team
  • Nick Bryda (Fufu), packaging team leader
  • David Holden, Head of Infrastructure
  • Lee Ward (ViperChief), communications team leader
  • Blair Zimmerman (Psych0), Head of Marketing

Andrew Wyatt

Andrew Wyatt is the founder and project leader of the Fuduntu project. He is a trained Linux Systems Architect and Engineer and Red Hat Certified Engineer and has worked for 16 years as a technology leader in the provision and administration of IT solutions.

Award and dissemination

  • On March 14, 2013, the Linux Foundation named Fuduntu the 2013 winner in the “Best Desktop Distribution” category.
  • Fuduntu was among other things part of the magazine DVDs of the Linux magazines Linux Intern and Linux Format .
  • In July 2012 the developers estimated the number of active installations at around 35,000, in October 2012 at around 45,000. These numbers were determined by evaluating software and data traffic.

criticism

It was criticized that Fuduntu still used the Gnome interface of version 2 as the standard desktop in version 2013.1 instead of relying on the more recent MATE , Cinnamon or Gnome 3. In this version, the developers offered Enlightenment as an alternative to post-installation. With version 2013.2 work began on a KDE variant of Fuduntu.

history

Fuduntu
date version comment
November 7, 2010 14.0.8
  • Released a Fedora 14 remix as an educational exercise on Sourceforge
  • Moving the file directories / tmp and / var / log to a RAM disk
  • Setting the swap priority in the kernel to 10 (default is 60)
  • Addition of Jupiter to save energy
  • Set up the quick start of OpenOffice
November 25, 2010 14.5
  • CFS by BFS replaced
  • Deadline IO scheduler as standard
  • Various optimizations that improve the availability and response times of a Fuduntu computer
  • Thunderbird included in the standard installation
December 3, 2010 14.6
  • Revised user interface
  • Improvement of the interaction of the IRQ and BFS in the kernel
  • Fuduntu 14.6 has a basic memory consumption of 150 MB after installation
December 10, 2010 14.7
  • Cache of Mozilla Firefox moved to a RAM disk
  • Adobe Flash and Fluendo Media Codecs are supplied after a redistribution license has been granted.
  • NTFS-3G added
December 18, 2010 14.7-2 The following programs were included in the standard scope of delivery:
December 21, 2010 14.7-3
  • Font quality improvements through the integration of Infinality freetype enhancement
  • VLC has been included in the standard installation
January 5, 2011 14.7-7
  • Integration of Likewise Open and bluez-compat
  • The Fuduntu packages are now divided into "Stable", "Test" and "Source" repositories.
January 7, 2011 14.8
  • Kernel 2.6.37,
  • PowerTop 2.0
  • BFS has been removed and replaced with CFS
January 16, 2011 14.8-2
  • Ilurus and "Open Terminal Here" expansion integrated
  • Integration of the Nautilus Actions configuration tool
  • Tomboy
January 23, 2011 14.8-3
January 29, 2011 14.8-4
  • Bug fix, no new features
March 11, 2011 14.9
  • Kernel 2.6.37.3,
  • Adobe Flash Plugin 10.2
  • Chromium 9 (stable)
  • Prism
  • OpenShot 1.2.2
June 18, 2011 14.10
4th July 2011 14.10.1
  • Revision of the boot process, including the integration of dracut
  • Banshee 2.0.1
September 20, 2011 11/14
  • This release is known as the first official Fuduntu Rolling Release ISO image.
November 7, 2011 14.12
  • The first release to be built on a code base independent of Fedora
  • Kernel 3.0.7
  • X.Org server 1.11.1
January 10, 2012 2012.1
  • New versions of various packages
April 1, 2012 2012.2
  • Kernel 3.2.13
  • Pidgin replaces Empathy as an IM client
  • Hardware detection improvement
2nd July 2012 2012.3
October 1, 2012 2012.4
  • Kernel 3.4.10
  • Conversion from OpenOffice to LibreOffice 3.6.1.2
  • With this update the management of the TMPFS mount points has been optimized
  • Restructuring of the file system, as it was also implemented in Fedora 17, whereby the / run directory is on a RAM disk.
January 7, 2013 2013.1
April 8, 2013 2013.2
  • New, stripped-down, "Fuduntu Lite" installation option for netbooks
  • Kernel 3.8.3-3
  • LibreOffice 4

System requirements

For version 2012.4:

32 bit: 900 MHz or faster CPU , 384 MB RAM, 5 GB of available hard disk space.

64-bit: 1 GHz or faster 64-bit CPU, 1 GB RAM, 6 GB of available hard disk space.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Falko Benthin: Fuduntu in the test: Linux distribution based on Fedora for netbooks. teltarif.de Onlineverlag GmbH, January 2, 2011, accessed on April 2, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b About Fuduntu. Fuduntu Project, archived from the original on April 29, 2011 ; accessed on July 3, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Rob Zwetsloot: Fuduntu 2013.1 Review - Quite Punny. Imagine Publishing Ltd., accessed February 28, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Fuduntu Is A Fedora 14 Remix For Netbooks And Laptops. Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog, November 14, 2010, accessed August 15, 2011 .
  5. ^ Fuduntu Team meeting April 14, 2013. Fuduntu Project, archived from the original on April 21, 2013 ; accessed on July 3, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Fuduntu Project announces the discontinuation of the Fuduntu distribution on Pro Linux, accessed on April 17, 2013
  7. ^ Project Ends. Fuduntu Project, archived from the original on May 18, 2013 ; accessed on July 3, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Immediate end for Fuduntu: No more updates on bitblokes.de, author Jürgen Donauer, April 29, 2013, accessed on July 4, 2014
  9. ↑ a b c d Rohan Pearce: Linux distro spotlight: Fuduntu. November 1, 2012, accessed July 4, 2014 .
  10. ↑ a b Jürgen Donauer: Fuduntu 2013.1 is published. bitblokes.de, January 8, 2013, accessed April 2, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Happy Second Anniversary Fuduntu! Fuduntu Project, archived from the original on March 24, 2013 ; accessed on July 3, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Katherine Noyes: The 2013 Top 7 Best Linux Distributions for You. The Linux Foundation, March 14, 2013, accessed April 2, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Katherine Noyes: Issue 168 (March 2013) - Linux vs Windows 8: The verdict. Future Publishing Limited, March 1, 2013, accessed April 2, 2013 .
  14. ↑ a b release info 2012.3. Fuduntu Project, archived from the original on October 29, 2012 ; accessed on July 3, 2014 .
  15. ↑ a b release info 2012.4. Fuduntu Project, archived from the original on November 7, 2012 ; accessed on July 3, 2014 .
  16. ↑ a b release info 2013.2. Fuduntu Project, archived from the original on April 27, 2013 ; accessed on July 3, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Release info 2012.2. Fuduntu Project, archived from the original on November 9, 2012 ; accessed on July 3, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Release info 2013.1. Fuduntu Project, archived from the original on January 15, 2013 ; accessed on July 3, 2014 .