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.

Comments

That's great!

[redmid17]

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?

Great job ./

Re:That's great!

[Anonymous Coward]

if i try it and i don't like it, will I be spitting feathers?

Re:That's great!

[SeaFox]

I hear it tastes like chickn.

Re:That's great!

[SeaFox]

It appears to be simply Ubuntu using a desktop environment called Budgie (which none of us have ever heard of I bet).

Re: That's great!

[bestweasel]

That's unfair. I'm sure someone has heard of it.

This should be part of the Slashdot editor's job. So many of these ground-breaking releases lead to a git site or web page which assume you already know what it's all about and where it can be hard to find a simple description which doesn't assume lots of prior knowledge.

Re:That's great!

[Dutch Gun]

It's the end result of a Canonical experiment designed to find the awkward sounding product name in the world, ever.

Re:That's great!

[lsatenstein]

I installed it and found it a very rich Gnome++ desktop. It is missing the ability to install Gnome extensions, and other than that, the typical list of gnome applications presented onto the desktop. There is a video to show it's offering. Sorry, don't have the link at this instant.

Re:too little, too late

[PPH]

It's just pining for the fjords.

And what exactly is Ubuntu Budgie?

[Morgaine]

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.

Re:And what exactly is Ubuntu Budgie?

[PCM2]

I say we boycott it. Who's with me???

Re:And what exactly is Ubuntu Budgie?

[Anonymous Coward]

It looks like another Gnome 3 fork or skin.

Re:And what exactly is Ubuntu Budgie?

[WallyL]

Does budgie remind anyone else of wedgie, too?

Re:And what exactly is Ubuntu Budgie?

[lsatenstein]

Ats half Gnome.

I love Budgie

[alternative_right]

One of the better NWOBHM bands. Check out Night Flight (1981).

Huh???

[MMC Monster]

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?

Re: Huh???

[MMC Monster]

Is Budgie the name of the DE? It doesn't even have a wikipedia entry.

Re: Bugie

[iggymanz]

Oh I thought it was the recipient of a buggering, as opposed to the buggerer

Budgie sounds like a heavy version of jwm

[technosaurus]

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:
* 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
...pretty much everything except (the apparently outdated notion of) desktop icons and a gui configuration (though several exist outside the main project).

Re:good enough for me

[nnull]

So kind of like Xubuntu but with more of a light weight gnome flavor? I guess I could kind of dig it, looks interesting.

Budgie is a shell for GNOME (says one website)

[jbn-o]

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).

Yawn

[LordWabbit2]

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".

Re:Wow! It's fucking nothing!

[TechyImmigrant]

My eyes glazed over. I only use the command line in an ssh window.

Re:too little, too late

[HuguesT]

Beautiful plumage, though.

Try without reinstalling Ubuntu

[HuguesT]

Budgie is a desktop environment. Can be tried for 16:04 without reinstalling.