• Developer Diary – October

    Showcase This month’s activities have been dominated by the final push and release of our second release  as an official member of the Ubuntu family. It has been an interesting six months – and this month was no exception; more on that later. We are very grateful to our small yet growing band of Patreons and Paypal contributors…

  • Competition – changing faces

    t not often you get to change the face of a distro – so here is your chance. Our default desktop, much of our website artwork has used this picture. As we approach 18.04 (Bionic Beaver), we are offering up for you to change our default artwork. Can you do better? Competition time – the…

  • 17.10 Ubuntu Budgie Released!

    17.10 Ubuntu Budgie Released!

    We are pleased to announce the release of the next version of our distro – and the second as an official flavor of the Ubuntufamily. Based on 17.04 experiences, feedback and suggestions we have received from our users, the new release comes with a lot of new features, fixes and optimizations: More customisation options via budgie welcome Complete desktop look and feel…

  • Developer Diary – September

    Developer Diary – September

    Our fabulous community Thank-you to everyone who has donated this month. We now have raised enough to cover: URL renewal costs for budgie-remix.org and ubuntubudgie.org for the next three years Put aside server costs for the next three years if our sponsorship with DigitalOcean is not renewed. Our donation page  has been revamped with additional goals to…

  • 17.10 Release Notes

    17.10 Release Notes

    Version Ubuntu Budgie v17.10 (artful) Release: Oct 19th, 2017 New features and enhancements Files (Nautilus) 3.26 with Folder-Color to change color and add emblems to folders Files now come with Various Document Templates available to use Settings (gnome-control-center) has had a stylish makeover GNOME-based apps are now available at the latest upstream version 3.26 (if…

  • Developer Diary – August

    Developer Diary – August

    Shoutout Well this month has been monumentally busy – in summary budgie-remix 16.04.3  was released budgie-desktop 10.4  was released Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 beta 1  was released launch of our first Ubuntu Budgie branded  desktops and laptops a whole host of bug-fixes… and we’ve found sometime to do some really nice development stuff We need a holiday … no chance! budgie-remix…

  • Budgie Desktop v10.4 released for Debian and Ubuntu

    Budgie Desktop v10.4 released for Debian and Ubuntu

    Its my pleasure to announce the release of the latest Budgie Desktop for both Debian and Ubuntu users. The release is for: Debian unstable Debian Buster (will be sync’d next week) Ubuntu 17.10 Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu Budgie 17.04 Ubuntu 16.04.3 budgie-remix 16.04.3 At the same time, I have refreshed all builds made…

  • Ubuntu Budgie Special Edition computers

    Nimbusoft  builds Notebooks and Desktops born to run Linux. They develop and implement open source software into everything they do. Their mission is to make open source technology available to everyone. Ubuntu Budgie team is proud to partner with Nimbusoft for bringing you fantastic and affordable technology. These special edition desktops truly demonstrate the style, simplicity…

  • Budgie-remix 16.04.3 is available

    We are pleased to announce the next point release of our budgie-remix distro based on the solid 16.04 LTS Ubuntu release. This is our third release of the budgie-remix 16.04 series that follows Ubuntu release cycle – we have worked on getting closely aligned in the same manner as Ubuntu and the other official community…

  • Developer Diary – July

    Showcase Our 17.10 Desktop Wallpaper contest  attractive many fantastic entries so much so we have chosen both 17.10 desktop wallpapers and our future 18.04 release as well! We are very grateful to our small band of Patreons and Paypal contributors this month . Everyone who does help out this well makes this project viable for now and the long-term.…