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Please welcome two new team members
The Ubuntu Budgie team are pleased to welcome two new team members. Efkan Isazade Efkan has joined us in the Project Manager/ Administrator role that was recently advertised. Efkan hails from Azerbaijan and will be ensuring the team meets its goals and schedules for 18.04 LTS and 18.10. Efkan will also be ensuring your donations…
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Become a team member – Project Manager / Project Administrator
The Ubuntu Budgie team are looking for a new volunteer to join our ranks as Project Manager / Project Administrator. This is a non-technical role and will involve approx 3-4 hours a week dedication? Interested? Duties include … but not exclusively… Coordinating the team activities across multiple timezones flexible project schedule production Running the monthly…
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budgie-remix 16.04 – end of support date
With a heavy heart the Ubuntu Budgie team today announce the end-of-support for our 16.04 budgie-remix edition from the beginning of August 2018. We would like to thank the almost quarter of a million downloaders since we first launched budgie-remix back in April 2016 for at least having a look at our fledgling distro. We…
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How minimal is too minimal?
So, with the release of Bionic Beaver (18.04) came a new feature for a “minimal” install. This minimal feature is something that many people have provided excellent feedback on and it appears to be a loved feature. I’m one of those people. But with that, comes to the opinionated concept of how minimal is “too”…
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18.10 and beyond – 64bit images only
We have had a successful release of Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 LTS and we now are in full planning mode for 18.10. Similar to the decision made by Ubuntu themselves at 17.10, we have decided to concentrate all our efforts on producing a really good image based on the hardware almost all of you actually use…
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Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 LTS Released!
We are pleased to announce the **release** of the next version of our distro, the third as an official flavor of the **Ubuntu** family and our very first LTS. The LTS version is supported for 3 years while the regular releases are supported for 9 months. Based on 17.10 experiences, feedback and suggestions we have…
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18.04 – Beta 2
Beta 2 of Ubuntu Budgie has been released (5th April) – one short month after beta 1! This is the final beta before the actual release on the 26th April. For beta 2 we have concentrated on bug-fixing and smoothing off those rough edges our user community have reported. As always – if you haven’t…
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Ubuntu Budgie – Annual Financial Statement 2017 – 2018
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 2017 to 2018. 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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Welcome to Discourse
Hi everyone, We would like to announce that starting with the release of 18.04 LTS; our community support will be moving to Discourse. Currently, most of our support activities are spread across several social media platforms – Facebook, G+, Twitter, Reddit, IRC and our Gitter community room. What this means for you is that we…
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18.04 Release Notes
Version Ubuntu Budgie v18.04 (bionic beaver) Release: Apr 26th, 2018 final release notes In these release notes the areas covered are: New features and enhancements Issues Resolved Upgrading from 17.10 Ubuntu Budgie Upgrading from 16.04.4 budgie-remix Known Issues when upgrading Where to download Ubuntu Budgie Our new support site https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org New features and enhancements Add support…
