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Ubuntu Budgie – Annual Financial Statement 2020 – 2021
Summary As part of our commitment to be transparent with the community, the team is pleased to present a short statement of our financial position covering 2020 to 2021. History Budgie Remix had launched in April 2016 In Nov 2016 Ubuntu Budgie was granted the status as an official community flavour with Ubuntu/Canonical. 17.04 was…
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Ubuntu Budgie 21.04 Release Notes
Ubuntu Budgie v21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) Release: 22nd April, 2021 This is still in draft – pictures and words to be added and refined. Please check again in the next week or so Ubuntu Budgie 21.04 is a normal release that will be supported for 9 months until Jan 2022. Long Term Releases such as 20.04.2…
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Release notes – Ubuntu Budgie 21.04 on a Raspberry Pi 4
Ubuntu Budgie v21.04 Raspberry Pi 4 Release: 22nd April , 2021 Beta 1 This is our very first Raspberry Pi image of Ubuntu Budgie. Team member Sam Lane has been actively creating this and we as a team hope you enjoy his efforts and ideas. In these release notes the areas covered are: Budgie ARM…
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Tuxedo Pulse 15 – New Development Machine
Introduction Thanks to all of our generous donors the Ubuntu Budgie team has purchased a development laptop for me to continue supporting and developing our distro. Up until now, I have been using my own personal laptop since the first 16.04 budgie-remix days. It was showing its age – needing to be shook hard to…
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Ubuntu Budgie 20.04.2 LTS Released!
We are pleased to announce the release of the next version of our distro, the second 20.04 LTS point release. The LTS version is supported for 3 years while the regular releases are supported for 9 months. The new release rolls-up various fixes and optimizations that have been released since the 20.04.1 release in August:…
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Ubuntu Budgie 20.10 Release Notes
Ubuntu Budgie v20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) Release: Oct 22nd, 2020 Ubuntu Budgie 20.10 is a normal release that will be supported for 9 months until July 2021. Long Term Releases such as 20.04.1 provide assured stability over a longer term (3 yrs) than a standard 9 month release. Critical and stability fixes will be released for…
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Development update on Window Shuffler
The history Ubuntu Budgie’s first edition of tiling tool Window Shuffler was written during spring of 2018. The general tendency to add tiling features to the desktop environment is obvious, and we were pleased to get reports that shuffler also works well on Mate and GNOME Shell. The tool was initially mainly oriented on -and…
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Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 LTS Released!
We are pleased to announce the release of the next version of our distro, our second Long Term Support (LTS) release as an official flavor of the Ubuntu family. The LTS version is supported for 3 years while the regular releases are supported for 9 months. This release is all thanks to our volunteer and…
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Ubuntu Budgie 20.04LTS Release Notes for 18.04 Upgraders
VERSION Ubuntu Budgie v20.04 (Focal Fossa) Release: April 23rd, 2020 Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 is a LTS (Long Term Support) release that will be supported for 3 years until April 2023. Long Term Releases provide assured stability over a longer term than a standard 9 month release. Critical and stability fixes will be released for all…
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Digital Ocean and Ubuntu Budgie history
It’s the year 2014, and the Ubuntu Budgie project had just begun to kick off under the name Budgie-Remix. Shortly after that, joining the team to take care of any web technology-related tasks, we ran the site by leveraging the WordPress.com service (giving us free hosting). As time went on, we had found that the…
