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Ubuntu Budgie Could Be The New Flavor of Ubuntu Linux (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the upcoming-releases dept.

prisoninmate writes: Budgie-Remix maintainer David Mohammed informs Softpedia about the progress made with the upcoming operating system, whose ultimate goal is to become an official Ubuntu Linux flavor, possibly under the name of Ubuntu Budgie. Even Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said in a Google+ comment last month that it will definitely support if there is a community around the packaging. Since their initial report, it looks like the developer managed to get in contact with the Ubuntu MATE project leader Martin Wimpress, who urged him to target Ubuntu 16.10 for an official status of his soon-to-be-named Ubuntu flavor built on top of the Budgie desktop environment created by the team of developers from Solus Project.

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  1. Great summary by chispito · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It would be nice if, in the summary, you told me what makes "Budgie" different from every other kind of Ubuntu.

    Side note: Is it really a good idea to distinguish your Ubuntu flavor with an animal? I know it's not "Bodacious Budgie" or something along those lines, but it could be confusing nonetheless.

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    1. Re:Great summary by hairyfeet · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Its yet ANOTHER desktop environment, because Linux has such a shortage of desktop environments. I swear to God that DEs and fricking text editors seem to be the only damned things that gets made in Linux land anymore.

      Because that is what Linux needs to really take off, not a better Windows translation layer so it can run all the bazillion Windows programs that Linux has zero equivalent of, or a way to run Windows drivers so the mountains of hardware that doesn't work or works poorly and gets piss poor support from the devs can actually work...nope, yet another DE, that's the ticket!

      And people wonder why MSFT can put out "Windows 10: Eye of Sauron Edition" and the only "competition" they have to worry about is Windows 7....sigh.

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    2. Re:Great summary by chispito · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm an idiot.

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    3. Re:Great summary by CastrTroy · · Score: 3, Insightful

      What I don't get is why having a different desktop environment requires a whole different distribution. Why not just give the option when installing it instead of having all these supposedly different distributions with different names?

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    4. Re:Great summary by Pascal+Sartoretti · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Budgie is a DE

      And what is a DE ? Sorry, but two letter acronyms are ungooglable.

  2. Re:Another day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Distros and Remixes are completely different. A remix is where the exact same repositories are used, just that the installer bootstraps a different set of packages. This means that as soon as core Ubuntu gets an security update, the remix will get the same.

    Linux Mint made the mistake of becoming a separate distro, meaning that they had to review security updates, etc. If they'd simply focused on getting cinnamon, nemo, etc into the official Ubuntu repositories, they would now be view more favorably after their breach.

  3. Good, might consider using Ubuntu now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    I stopped using Ubuntu ever since they introduced Unity. All my installs went to Debian, Linux Mint or Fedora depending on what was needed.

    I could have stripped out Unity and installed a decent DE like Cinnamon. But why would I when I can just get a Debian Cinnamon/XFCE/MATE/etc LiveISO or a similar selection of Linux Mint/Fedora Spin iso's right off the bat?