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Ubuntu Budgie Could Be The New Flavor of Ubuntu Linux (softpedia.com)
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.
"Bubuntu".
Just saying.
*hides*
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.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
No way am I buying an OS from them.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
I've been following the Solus project for quite some time and had several conversations with the lead developer (Ikey - https://github.com/ikeydoherty). It's refreshing to have a project leader be such a stubborn advocate for the Linux desktop at a time when everyone else (or at least Canonical & Co.) are focusing solely on mobile and tablets. The vast majority of us Ubuntu users have slowly watched the desktop age and lack the attention it needs in the name of convergence - this could be the thing that makes me want to run Ubuntu again.
I see a lot of comments like "I would use Ubuntu but Unity sucks" or "I was an Ubuntu fan until Unity ruined it." If Budgie-Ubuntu becomes an official flavor, that will bring the number of officially supported DEs up to 7: MATE, KDE Plasma, Xfce (which is actually supported in two separate official flavors, Xubuntu and Ubuntu Studio), LXDE, GNOME 3, Unity, and Budgie. There is also some talk of making Enlightenment and Cinnamon officially supported. (See: http://www.ubuntu.com/download... )
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.
Apparently it's a new DE for the next Ubuntu LTS release and forward.
Here's a project link.
It has the vibe of a Korora/OzoneOS or Elementary ripp, both of which look way more mature than this "Ubuntu Budgie" thing.
I don't get the buzz.
Looks like a project in pre-alpha stage, if you ask me.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
How does Budgie-Remix compare to Lubuntu?
It will probably use systemd. I think that upstart is officially dead now, latest release was in september 2014.
Ubuntu lost me a long time ago when they started doing everything their own way despite the cries of the community. If anything both Ubuntu and Android has taught us it's that an operating system simply being open source is not enough to guarantee user freedom. The Arch Linux philosophy is to provide the core services of a Linux distribution and then get the fuck out of the way. Other projects can then build their idea of an OS on top of the Arch core. If one flavor of Arch gets out of control we can move on. This seems to be a much healthier approach to OS design. Anyone currently using Ubuntu, I would recommend check out Antergos. It will start impressing you right away by letting you choose from 8 or so DM's from the same installer. I say this as nothing more than a happy Antergos user for almost 2 years.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Ubuntu Budgie Could Be The New Flavor of Ubuntu Linux
I prefer albatross flavor.
> 50% of human beings? What a dubious statement.
I comment occasionally so that I can mod others -1 overrated or -1 offtopic.
> 50% of human beings? What a dubious statement.
Ummm... What are you replying to?
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
Now what happens when a distro developer builds a loyal following and then sells out?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Your last sentence is key there. If people like making GUIs, what's the point of complaining? Why do you care? They're giving them away to the world for free to use in case anybody wants it. Perhaps the time could be better spent elsewhere, but it's still practically a service of charity.
This highlights the difference between FLOSS and proprietary systems. If you hate how mangled the GUI is in the newest version of macOS or Windows, you're screwed. But Linux and the BSDs have a lot of great options to one's preference.
Most people prefer Coke over Pepsi. Doesn't mean that everyone in the world has drunk both and can make an informed choice. Just means the ones who have tried one or the other prefer Coke. Maybe "I don't want straight Ubuntu. I want Mint. So do many other users of Debian-based GNU/Linux Operating Systems." would have been a better choice of words for you grammar nazis out there. I
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
... another Windows Start Menu clone.
THISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHIS. Gave up with Ubuntu after every single fecking update broke something. If it's not sound, it's graphics. if it's neither, then there's some other obscure piece of hardware, such as the parallel interface or the USB ports. Users want a stable API/ABI, not something that's going to change in 3 weeks. Why do you think Windows has been so successful since Win95. Because everything works. It might be an unreliable and unsafe heap of turd, but it'll run my back catalog of applications, which quite often may have cost more than the machine running it.
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
Perhaps you are not aware that Linux Mint uses the Ubuntu repositories for their main edition, so they get security updates at the same time as their parent distro? The same goes for Mint's Debian edition, the package manager pulls directly from Debian's security repository. There is no delay or review by the Mint developers required.
"Show me your budgies."
"Budgies? Budgies? We don't need no stinkin' budgies."
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
> 50% of human beings? What a dubious statement.
Ummm... What are you replying to?
The breach had nothing to do with the distro. I like the fact that they try not to have things break when Ubuntu does. I don't want straight Ubuntu. I want Mint. So do most other people.
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And then you can call it "Ubuntu Budgie Smuggler"
I'm from Victoria and I'd honestly never heard of the expression until a federal politician decided to parade his manliness, apparently quite seductive to rusted-on Liberal-voters, in red Speedos.