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.

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Great summary

[chispito]

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.

Re:Great summary

[LichtSpektren]

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.

Budgie is a DE, like Xfce and GNOME: https://solus-project.com/budg...

The Ubuntu flavors are differentiated by their name (Xfce: Xubuntu, KDE: Kubuntu, etc.), and the animal names designate the release number (16.04 will be "Xenial Xerus" for all of the flavors).

Re:Great summary

[justthinkit]

You can't find your comment because it looks almost exactly like its parent comment.

You added just one sentence, in the middle of the comment. Otherwise the two look very similar.

Re:Great summary

[chispito]

I'm an idiot.

Re:Great summary

[CastrTroy]

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?

Re: Great summary

[p91paul]

Desktop Environment. A DE usually includes a window manager, panels, widgets, some kind of control center (i.e. power management, screensaver settings, ...) , and some applications like a file manager, a browser, a terminal emulator, etc...

They've been going downhill since Halo 3

[NotDrWho]

No way am I buying an OS from them.

Just to make a point...

[LichtSpektren]

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... )

Re:Another day

[Anonymous Coward]

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 about a new DE

[Qbertino]

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.

Re:I'm sure it'll go down a tweet

[PPH]

It's not down. Just pining for the fjords.

What happens when he sells out?

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

Yesterday there was a thread about some popular Chrome extension. The original developer who built trust sold it out On March 23. The buyer loaded it up with malware, session hijacks, routing through shady proxies etc. Took about 2 weeks for Google to eventually pull the extension off. In the comments I saw some android apps too have the same issue.

Now what happens when a distro developer builds a loyal following and then sells out?

Re:Another day

[The123king]

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.