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What the Fu ... duntu!? I think maybe the baristas at the Waves Coffee House on West Broadway, at Spruce, are psychic. How else to explain this:



Fuduntu was a cool, Fedora-based Linux distro, which wrapped up it's development earlier this year. Here's one of my two posts about it's sudden, sad, demise. The hope was that the heart of Fuduntu would beat in the new Cloverleaf project, made up of a small group of former Fuduntu developers -- a really small group. In fact, the Cloverleaf effort has realistically scaled back from producing a full Linux distribution based on openSUSE, and refocused on contributing to the openSUSE project. It sounds like all the goodness they hoped to put in Cloverleaf, will, in the fullness of time, enrich openSUSE.

According to the aggregators over at Wikipedia the first version of the German Linux distribution S.u.S.E. ("Software und System-Entwicklung") was released, not as version 1.0, or 1.1, but as S.u.S.E Linux 4.2. The reason? It was an intentional reference to The Question -- you know, of Life, the Universe, and Everything, from Douglas Adams' five book trilogy Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. S.u.S.E.'s YaST package manager also started at version number, 0.42. I love an operating system with a sense of humour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8