Under-the-hood decisions aside, this distro seems to fairly closely match the philosophy of Elementary OS [1] (which, admittedly, seems to be "follow OSX"). One main difference is that, whereas Fuduntu uses rpm/yum, Elementary OS is an Ubuntu fork and uses its repositories (dpkg/apt).
Wow, that's by far the best looking Linux distro I've seen. Judging from the screenshots, Fuduntu, like most distros, is pretty fugly. ElementaryOS actually looks like it has someone making UX choices and creating a consistent design language. The system font isn't great and type could really use some font smoothing, but that's the case with all Linux distros I know of.
I think this is exactly what Linux needs to become a platform consumers like to use. Once it's out of beta, I'm definitely going to install ElementaryOS.
Yah, sorry, don't like it one bit. I don't understand how you could think that works better for consumers than OS X or Windows. I do think the desktop metaphor is on its way out, though (see iOS and Win8)
I didn't mean to imply that. I just said it looks nicer, but I guess it doesn't appeal to some people. I like a desktop-style workflow more than a mobile one, but I guess it may be worse for normal consumers, but that's not what I am.
I don't care for the desktop shell they're making, but the applications I have tried are really high-quality. The screen-capture program is really great and feature-full.
Looks like a gnome-shell clone with burnished aluminum frames. It may be pretty in the abstract but it's apparent lack of usability makes it ugly to my eyes.
As others have noted, a lot of their efforts have been going into developing new (or new forks of existing) tools and applications, with much attention to implementing a simple "do one thing and do it right" solution for each item, and making all of them cohesive. You can still quite easily replace their file browser, their dock, their terminal, etc. with ones you prefer quite easily (this is becoming difficult within Unity), but I've found myself not wanting to. The OS is very cohesive and kind of a joy to use, I've found.
[1] http://elementaryos.org/