Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Fuduntu = [Fedora + Ubuntu]

Fuduntu is a perfect distro for those users who hate RedHat due to its complexities & less user friendliness. It is a distro developed to bridge the gap between Fedora & Ubuntu. It is a Fedora remix optimized for Netbook and other portable computers & may be regarded as the most attractive cousin of RedHat. Fedora mainly focuses on developers perspective whereas Ubuntu focuses on end user experience. Distros like Mint, Ubuntu are well versed with user needs & append it’s apps, but Fedora lacks such schemes. These are the pitfalls which are mainly taken care of in Fuduntu. Although, it’s in an incipient stage now, it has a good collection of default packages. It also needs to focus more on user needs.

Features
• Intended to be reasonably sized, yet have a sane software set by default
• Intended to be tweaked for performance out of the box
• Intended to be tuned for battery life out of the box
• Fuduntu specific updates hosted in the signed Fuduntu repo
• Leverages Fedora updates and release cycle for upstream patches
• Point release ISOs updated often for convenience to new Fuduntu users

Some of the tweaks found in Fuduntu:

• BFS task scheduler
• Deadline IO scheduler
• /tmp and /var/log moved to RAM disk
• Swappiness reduced to 10
• Jupiter for power savings
• Gnome default desktop tweaks
• Gnome Terminal color tweaks

A few of the default packages found in Fuduntu:

• Adobe Flash
• Fluendo MP3 Codec
• Infinality Freetype
• Nautilus Elementary
• OpenOffice
• Thunderbird
• GIMP
• Jupiter
• VIM Enhanced


Project Page -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuduntu/
Torrents link:
Torrent (Fuduntu 32 bit): Linux Tracker
Torrent (Fuduntu 64 bit): Linux Tracker

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