Fuduntu 2012.4 Announced!

October 1, 2012 by 60 Comments

A new desktop for 2012.4

It’s that time again! The Fuduntu Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Fuduntu 2012.4. This is the fourth quarterly release for 2012. Like all previous Fuduntu releases, this release follows our tradition of making small incremental distribution improvements that don’t sacrifice the stability of our Linux distribution. Existing Fuduntu users have already rolled up to 2012.4, as all of the updates available are released to our stable repository.

New Features

This release comes with several changes, new features, and improvements. There have been changes to the way TMPFS works. With this update, the management of TMPFS mount points has been optimized. Several mount points have been mounted under /run to reduce disk I/O, increasing speed and battery life.

Introducing Elmer, the Fuduntu welcome screen

In addition, an install memory bug has been corrected. This will allow installation of the 32-bit OS on only 384MB of RAM and the 64-bit on 512MB. Sudo can now be enabled during the first boot, rather than having to manually edit the sudoers file. We have also included Elmer, a new welcome screen.

Jupiter 0.1.6 is included in this release, allowing for restore on resume from standby and updates to power management.

In addition to the technical changes, there have also been some aesthetic changes. 2012.4 debuts a new default theme for Fuduntu, as well as a new wallpaper. The default wallpaper is an attempt to bring a more aesthetically pleasing look to the desktop from first boot.

Mono is no longer included with the default installation. All Mono dependencies have been shed in order to provide a Mono-free default install.

This release also comes with new program defaults. LibreOffice, GIMP, and Thunderbird are now all included from install. In addition, VLC has replaced Banshee as the default audio program as well as the default video program.

Featuring many new wallpaper selections

Major Programs Included in this Release:

  • Kernel 3.4.10
  • Chromium 21.0.1180.89
  • Thunderbird 15.0
  • LibreOffice 3.6.1.2
  • GIMP 2.8.2

Team

This is a historical release for Fuduntu. This is the first release managed by the new leadership team. Since the team management changes in August, both the leadership and entire team have worked hard to bring this release together. Kudos especially go out to our exceptional packaging and development teams who made this release possible.

Hosting

Fuduntu has gained several mirrors in recent months. Three mirrors were established in Japan through KDDI Research Labs and the research lab Riken. The Fuduntu team is very grateful for their support of Fuduntu.

Thanks to monetary and other contributions, we have been able to continue to fund hosting services as well as build a virtual server farm to better build and host Fuduntu packages. The capacity at http://packages.fuduntu.org have been expanded, increasing the ceiling to 4TB and has also added redundancy allowing for greater uptime.

Community

Fuduntu has seen a spike in the community. Many people have switched to Fuduntu and traffic continues to grow. Currently, Fuduntu has an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 users and is seeing approximately 12TB of data movement per month across all mirrors between cycles with approximately 16-20TB during release months.

Fuduntu Website – Fuduntu.org
Fuduntu Community – Fuduntu Forum
Distrowatch – Fuduntu
IRC: #fuduntu @ Freenode

Download: 2012.4 – 32Bit: [ Download | Torrent ] 64Bit: [ Download | Torrent ]

SHA1 Sums:

32 bit: a1a611daebf36cb80b2aa009b4db9756da787ea1
64 bit: 70cae992945b005faef0b1dc5ba770b4a2dadd1d

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  • http://twitter.com/TwilightZer0 Twilight Zero

    Does it have GNOME 3? If not is it available in the repos? Does it also use systemd?

    • http://www.fewt.com/ Fewt

      We don’t ship or support GNOME 3 or systemd.

      • Desh

        Why don’t you support Gnome 3? What would happen, when Gnome 2 dies of old age? Would you be maintaining it? If so, for how long? By the way, the name Fuduntu has only F and d from Fedora, and other 5 letters from Ubuntu, so what is the connection with Ubuntu?

        • http://www.facebook.com/powered.by.pizza Liam Dawe

          They can switch to MATE, it’s gnome 2 forked and maintained.

        • http://www.fewt.com/ Fewt

          We are capable of maintaining it for as long as necessary, just as every other distribution does during their release cycle. I’ll pull patches over from RedHat when necessary since they have GNOME 2 in RHEL 6.

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  • yucel

    From the announce I didnt catch which DE-UI (Desktop Environment – User Interface) has this distro. I have only one laptop (desktop) computer, I have no tablet pc. If this distro hasnt a Cinnamon type DE-UI it is difficult for me using it. (Gnome 3.x is not for Laptops, it is more for tablets, therefor Gnome 3.x has no sense for the users like me)

    • M4t3us

      We’re using GNOME 2.32

  • eric

    Andrew, some of these comments are way out of line and so much so that they just do not get it. Fudunto is exactly what it was intended for. A fun and functional OS at its best . That’s my opinion.

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  • PNA

    Thank you for all your work. I recommend Fuduntu for small laptops/netbooks because of the nice clean desktop, and good battery optimization.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/powered.by.pizza Liam Dawe

    If you haven’t already be sure to update nvidia to the newer packages :)

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  • http://twitter.com/SeanMcGee Sean McGee

    A “new” desktop….that looks just like MacOSX.

    • http://www.fewt.com/ Fewt

      It doesn’t look anything like OSX. Oh, you mean it has a dock? So what, if you use it for 60 seconds and you’d know it is nothing like OSX. ;)

      • http://twitter.com/SeanMcGee Sean McGee

        You mean to tell me putting a tiger as the wallpaper was just a coincidence? It’s obvious what this is imitating…Imitation is the highest form of flattery…just own up to it!

        • http://www.fewt.com/ Fewt

          The tiger wallpaper was a really great looking creative commons licensed wallpaper that blended well with the desktop. We don’t have a goal of imitating Apple even if you don’t want to believe it or hear it.

        • http://fredrikfritteandersson.wordpress.com/ Fredrik Andersson

          kinda strange to judge something by a wallpaper that you probably will switch anyway..dont get the problem

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  • shadowguy14

    So you take out Docs and Gmail apps, but put in Thunderbird???

    • http://www.fewt.com/ Fewt

      We did, yes. We also added LibreOffice. We were seeing a lot of comments and feedback that we didn’t have LibreOffice or Thunderbird and they were needed so we decided to drop the links packages for these applications. The good news is that Docs and Gmail are still in our repository, fuduntu-gmail and fuduntu-google-docs.

      • http://www.facebook.com/slaptman Slapt Man

        Awesome!Those are my favorite apps!Fudbuntu is the only distro that works with my USB mouse and touchpad on hp2000-299wm.Thank You and keep up the great work!

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  • shadowguy14

    Where is Libre Office Impress?

    • http://www.fewt.com/ Fewt

      It is in the repo, sudo yum install libreoffice-impress

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  • Daniel

    Good job guys. I discovered this distribution when I asked the linux community if they know any distro with an updated kernel and Gnome 2 and someone recommended Fuduntu. As long as you’ll be using Gnome 2 I will be here. BTW, thank you!

    If you’re looking for an audio player I recommend DeadBeeF, it’s fast and lightweight.
    Cheers!

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  • qiuku609377224

    虽然没用过，但是还是支持下。希望GNU linux走向统一化、多元化、标准化，让更多的人接受linux

  • systemat1

    Andrew, whether it is possible to patch the touchpad driver that touchpad turned with screen turn as it was in Fuduntu 14.10?

    Thanks!

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  • http://twitter.com/hungarianhc Kevin Hanson

    Keep up the great work, guys! I’m going to visit my parents for Thanksgiving next month, and there is an older laptop that I’m going to install Fuduntu on. I love it!

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  • bobbysamd

    I’ve just found Fudunu and have installed it on my iMac. It runs and looks great!

    I’m a Mac and Ubuntu user and am now looking forward to learning Fuduntu.

  • bobbysamd

    I should add Ten Stars! Funduntu is terrific!

  • http://www.facebook.com/hein.hanssen Hein Hanssen

    I haven’t yet tried Fuduntu, but I will give it a try soon. Seems a very good alternative to Ubuntu to me. I like the rolling updates. One of the most annoying parts of Ubuntu is that software becomes outdated so fast and this forces you into installing a complete new version with all the risks that has.

  • Slava

    don’t work with USB-modem

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  • Sergio

    Very good work. I use Fuduntu in my netbook and its very fast and stable. I recomend it for the battery optimization and its simplicity.

  • Onish Kumar

    hey boss!! going to give it a try on my SuperDesktop…..never tried a rolling distro before. People, here, are saying it is meant only for laptops….hope it works on my desktop :)

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  • acridstone

    how do you port over redhat kernel patches? because that is the only way I have found to get my ezonics webcam to work.

    • http://www.fuduntu.org/ Fewt

      Well, we don’t follow their patches very closely, but if there is a patch that you need for your hardware to work, point it out to us and we’ll review and merge it.

  • Ganjar Widiatmansyah

    why apache2 php-mysql phpmyadmin cannot install on fuduntu ?? No package available.
    can you fix it ?

    • http://www.fuduntu.org/ Fewt

      Apache is in the repo, however we aren’t a server focused distribution so we won’t package or ship phpmyadmin or php-mysql.

      • Ganjar Widiatmansyah

        yup…i understand…fuduntu not focus for server now.. but i love fuduntu..
        thank’s for your answer fewt

        • http://www.fuduntu.org/ Fewt

          NP, I recommend CentOS or Scientific Linux in a VM if you are looking to do some server focused testing. We have VirtualBox-OSE in the repo. :)

  • Xaahu Yazeed

    My wifi didn’t work but other than that, AWESOME!

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