The installer is easy and the system is installed in minutes. The language/locale can be picked before you log in so your directories will be named in your native language.
I updated the install with a simple
so this is Fedora all right.
Fuduntu installs dropbox as a standard application and adds the dropbox repository, and it has no LibreOffice, only the cloud based Google docs. Now this is lightweigt and fine but I don't see Fuduntu beeing open about it.
If I am going to save pictures of my naked but on somebody else's server; I want to know about it - up front!
Fuduntu does not come with Firefox it comes with Chromium. Every installation of Chromium leaves an unique number with Google, helping them to monitor the installations.
I don't like that either. In short this distro spells Google all over it. Google mail, Google docs and Chromium.
So it is a very "cloudy" distro. But I guess I can change that and install LibreOffice.
Every Fedora user will feel fine with yum and Fuduntu wants to keep Gnome2 and advocates forking it, due to the massive changes in Gnome3.
This is pretty much Fedora with Gnome2 and AWN made ready for the clouds. Now the competition in that market could be
Peppermint. I am not to convinced of the speed of fuduntu, and seem to remember that Peppermint was snappier.
Also Peppermint is more open about it's cloud orientation. And that is important. They both look good. (But it is like that extremely sexy lady that did not tell you that she had a venereal disease. You really want to know about stuff like that up front, so you can use a condom - Or stay away.)
Both distros will probably do just fine on a Laptop with small resources. Fuduntu has the Fluendo codecs (licensed stuff) and Flash player out of the box and clearly a more pragmatic approach than Fedora in these matters. That is a + for functionality.
The yum package manager is good too and has many fans. And if you know your way around Fedora then you will be familiar with this one.
But as I recall it Peppermint was snappier.
If you need a light weight distro to do the job and you are not to fuzzy about your clouds (privacy) then fuduntu is a good alternative.
I don't get where the "untu" part comes in though. Maybe to win over all those people who think that Ubuntu is Linux?
Got it. But they are aware of it :