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Ubuntu Budgie Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the what-will-they-think-of-next dept.

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.

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  1. That's great! by redmid17 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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 ./

    1. Re:That's great! by SeaFox · · Score: 2

      I hear it tastes like chickn.

    2. Re:That's great! by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Informative

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

    3. Re:That's great! by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 2

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

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  2. Re:too little, too late by PPH · · Score: 2

    It's just pining for the fjords.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
  3. And what exactly is Ubuntu Budgie? by Morgaine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:And what exactly is Ubuntu Budgie? by PCM2 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  4. I love Budgie by alternative_right · · Score: 3, Interesting

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

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  5. Budgie sounds like a heavy version of jwm by technosaurus · · Score: 2

    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).