Silly Rabbit...

This is one of those "it figures" things...

I was fiddling about on my desktop, doing some Mint updates, when I glanced at the laptop pile next to the desk.  Oh yeah, the T400...

I think I mentioned the problems the Thinkpad T400 had a while back.  I'd been using it on the road, loaded up with Bodhi Linux, and had just finished out the project I was on, when I started having odd problems.  Turned out it was a graphics thing, and needed some tweaking.  When I got it back from the shop, I fiddled with it for a bit (I'd installed Zorin on it to replace Bodhi, which I'd just never really been happy with), then set the thing aside, moving on to whatever else was floating on the agenda.

Well, having nothing better to do with a Sunday, I decided to drag the 400 out and give it a run.  My initial thought was to install Manjaro with OpenBox on it, and see how that worked.  However, while digging through my stack of CDs/DVDs, I ran across a copy of Fuduntu 2013.2, which I'd downloaded/burned, and forgotten about.  (Do you see a sort-of behavior pattern emerging?)

Oh, what the heck?  I remembered reading about Fuduntu, and thought it'd be cool to fiddle with, as I have nothing even remotely close to Fedora on any of my systems.  So...  I did a liveboot to test, and everything worked fine...  Next stop, full installation.

Not bad, I must say.  The installation was fast and painless.  everything worked right out of box.  I was impressed.

Until I pulled up the terminal and entered "sudo yum update".  I get back an odd message about being unable to connect, etc.  For giggles, I enter "sudo yum upgrade".  Same deal.

A quick run to the GUI software update yields a single package, and that's it.

Hmmm...  Something's starting to click here...

Now, of course, the more observant out there are already chuckling at my expense.  A quick trip to Distrowatch showed that, as I'd begun to suspect, Fuduntu has been discontinued.  A little further research confirmed.  Fuduntu is no more.

Big sigh.

I guess I'll have to start looking for something else to put on the ol' T400 here.  Manjaro is still an option, but if I do, I think I'll go for a version other than the OpenBox one...

But, for now, I'm going to leave Fuduntu on here.  I rather like what I'm seeing.  And this is the latest version, so it's still up to date.  I'm not sure if any of the repositories are still on line or not (as they are for Saluki, which I can still get software for).

I seem to have a knack for picking the winners here, don't I?  I find something I like, and find it's been discontinued.

Oh well...