Fuduntu Turns One, Forks Fedora

by Susan Linton - Nov. 09, 2011Comments (2)

Fuduntu Fuduntu released version 14.12 recently, and with it came two interesting announcements. Andrew "Fewt" Wyatt said in a blog post that it was just a year ago when he made that original upload to SourceForge and now a year later his distro is competing in the Top 50 at Distrowatch.

As Fuduntu turns one Fedora 14 is reaching the end of its lifecycle. As such, Wyatt and friends have been working to fork from Fedora. On November 7, Wyatt announced success. He said, "Today I would like to announce that we are officially forked. This means that we are now a self contained, self hosted distribution. Fuduntu is now built from Fuduntu repositories, and we only pull from Fuduntu repositories by default."

Wyatt also announced version 14.12 to mark the anniversary. "Fuduntu 14.12 is our first release media built from Fuduntu repositories without any external dependencies." 14.12 features Kernel 3.0.7, Xorg 1.11.1, and Flash 11. Downloads links are provided in Wyatt's post as well as the instructions for upgrading.

Happy Anniversary Fuduntu! The second year will be even more exciting.

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by Micah on Nov. 09, 2011

I don't understand the appeal of a distro run by a developer community of, what, a dozen people, maybe? I don't mean at all to denigrate the work of the Fuduntu folks, but when I'd rather stick to something like Debian, where I know that thousands of eyes are looking at the code, giving me greater assurance that security and stability are going to be there when I need it.

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by rmdgms on Nov. 17, 2011

Micah, you have right when you said " I'd rather stick to something like Debian, where I know that thousands of eyes are looking at the code" but, you are a little bit wrong when you said that "giving me greater assurance that security and stability are going to be there when I need it."

That is almost true but, think about it,

we have windows OS for example, spread all arround, what do you get among the wide spread of people using it, and also the many eyes on the coding aswell,regular updates, you get Malware, Virus, etc, for all kinds of tastes.

Having a restricted OS may be good to prevent this, since there is no viable(small) target to infect. Just a thought.

Great effort Fuduntu team!

Thanks for this great OS!

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