Three Linux distros get key updates, plus one fades away

06.10.2012
With so many out there, it can be difficult to keep tabs on all the updates that come out over the course of an average week or month.

I've featured a few key arrivals over the past few months--including , , the , and --but several others have appeared in short order as well, making the challenge more difficult than ever.

In the interests of staying up-to-date, then, here's a quick look at a few of the latest arrivals. You may even find something you'd like to take for a yourself.

This past Monday saw the release of Fuduntu 2012.4, a distribution "that earns its name by its ambition to fit somewhere in-between Fedora and Ubuntu," as it explains on . Among the improvements in this fourth quarterly release for 2012 are a new default theme and wallpaper along with kernel 3.4.10, Chromium 21.0.1180.89, Thunderbird 15.0, LibreOffice 3.6.1.2, and GIMP 2.8.2. For new users, the software can be downloaded for free in 32- and 64-bit versions .