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Ubuntu Budgie Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor (softpedia.com)
prisoninmate writes from a report via Softpedia: After two successful major releases, budgie-remix has finally been accepted as an official Ubuntu flavor, earlier today during a meeting where four Canonical technicians voted positive. As such, we're extremely happy to inform our readers that the new Ubuntu flavor is called Ubuntu Budgie. In April this year, when budgie-remix hit the road towards its first major release, versioned 16.04, we reported that David Mohammed was kind enough to inform Softpedia about the fact that he got in touch with Ubuntu MATE leader Martin Wimpress, who urged the developer to target Ubuntu 16.10 for an official status. budgie-remix 16.10 arrived as well this fall shortly after the release of Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), and the dream of becoming an official Ubuntu flavor is now a reality. Re-branding of the official website and the entire distribution is ongoing. "We now move full steam ahead and look forward to working with the Ubuntu Develop Membership Board to examine and work through the technical aspects [...] 17.04 will be our first official release under the new name," said David Mohammed in the announcement.
What the fuck is the point of Ubuntu Budgie? It's brand new and little used. We couldn't even get a one-sentence description in the summary?
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Great job
ubuntu lost a significant marketshare. This is too little, too late
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is the only one I use fully twit integrated with built in caging and granny oversight
It's pretty hilarious that neither the Slashdot summary, nor the Budgie Remix front page (which doesn't even have an About link), nor the Budgie video, nor the Softpedia link, actually say what distinguishes Budgie from any other Ubuntu.
In the absence of information, you can't blame people for thinking that it's just a remix for the purpose of being different. If that is not so, then how about providing some information that might give people a hint? You've hidden it so well that none of the news rebloggers has any idea.
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
One of the better NWOBHM bands. Check out Night Flight (1981).
Alternative Right.
Slashdot "editors" upholding the grand tradition of posting shit with no fucking explanation.
From https://solus-project.com/budg...
Budgie is the flagship desktop of Solus and is a Solus project. It focuses on simplicity and elegance. Written from scratch with integration in mind, the Budgie desktop tightly integrates with the GNOME stack, employing underlying technologies to offer an alternative desktop experience.
Budgie Menu
The Budgie desktop environment offers an intuitive menu that enables quick access to your installed programs, offering both category and compact views.
Raven
Budgie ships with an applet, notification and customization center referred to as Raven. Raven enables you to:
Easily access calendar information, sound volume, media player controls, and more via Applets view.
Manage incoming application and system notifications via Notifications view
Customize your Budgie and system experience by enabling you to:
Change icon and widget theming
Add, remove, and modify Budgie panels, their properties as well as their displayed applets.
Obtain quick access to system settings and power options such as restart, suspend, and shutdown.
So what exactly is Ubuntu Budgie? The linked to website didn't give any specifics. It's obviously some sort of DE built on top of Ubuntu. Is it MATE? Or something else?
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=budgieremix
gives more info basically it ubuntu with the budgie de/wm not sure which never heard of budgie and other dev defaults.
Oh I thought it was the recipient of a buggering, as opposed to the buggerer
Meds first, then dictionary.
Modern "desktop environments" have continued to add code to get down to what jwm provides in a ~200kb binary with no toolkit dependency. The jwm "desktop environment" provides:
...pretty much everything except (the apparently outdated notion of) desktop icons and a gui configuration (though several exist outside the main project).
* multiple desktops and screen support
* per desktop backgrounds
* multiple horizontal and vertical launch bars (via trays and traybuttons)
* dock / notification area
* builtin clock, task list, pager, etc...
* multiple configurable "start" menus
* dynamic menu generation (can be used to make pseudo-apps too)
* group configurations to "style" specific apps or app types
According to >http://www.webupd8.org/2016/03/how-to-install-budgie-desktop-in-ubuntu-ppa.html"Budgie is a modern GTK-based desktop that was written from scratch, with simplicity and elegance in mind." and http://www.webupd8.org/2016/04/a-quick-look-at-budgie-remix-1604.htmlsays "Budgie is a shell for GNOME". Both links have more to say about this desktop based on GNOME.
I'm still not clear why this needs an entire disk image rather than continuing on as a personal package archive (PPA).
Digital Citizen
Big Yawn, yet another flavour of Linux rolled out by people with too much time on their hands.
At least they could have given it a better name..
"Ubuntu Ball Buster!"
"Ubuntu Killing Spree!"
Any fucken thing would have been better than "budgie".
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
Nobody has ever heard of Budgie.
Solus was originally a spin/fork of Debian Wheezy using a fork of Gnome 3 called Consort which was a great desktop by the way worked much better than Gnome 3. They then decided that being based on Debian didn't fit with what they were trying to do so they built a new distribution also called Solus from scratch. They decided that Consort needed to be rewritten and thus Budgie was born it is a decent shell for Gnome 3 making things easier. Now as to why there is an official Ubuntu variant based on the Solus guys desktop I don't know I haven't been following that side.
Budgie is a desktop environment. Can be tried for 16:04 without reinstalling.