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e are pleased to announce the release of the next version of our distro – and the first as an official flavor of the Ubuntu family. Based on 16.04 and 16.10 budgie-remix experiences, feedback and suggestions we have received from our users, the new release comes with a lot of new features, fixes and optimizations: Focused heavily on stability More customisation options via…

Version Ubuntu Budgie v17.04 (zesty) Released: April 13th 2017 A significant portion of this development cycle has been spent integrating with the Canonical build-system. Key visible integration items were: Plymouth customisations utilizing the Ubiquity installer reworking packages to remove the “budgie-remix” identities and replaced with the updated “Ubuntu Budgie” identity. New Features and Enhancements budgie-desktop…

Ubuntu Budgie is pleased to announce our 17.04 wallpaper contest – we are looking for fabulous original images to proudly show-case our first official community flavor edition of Ubuntu. Please dig deep into your photo collection! Your reward will be to display your work in Ubuntu – and the best of the best will be…

Hey everyone, it has been a little while since our last post so here are some latest news on what’s happening Official Status As you already know, we’ve acquired official status, marking another milestone in our distro development. Starting from 17.04 we will be using Ubuntu Budgie name, while older releases will keep the budgie-remix…

The budgie-remix team is pleased to inform the community that the Ubuntu Technical Board has granted official community flavor status to our distro.  We are pleased to join and be part-of the superb  Ubuntu family. Starting from today the distro will be known as Ubuntu Budgie. We now move full steam ahead and look forward to…

We are pleased to announce the release of the next version of our distro based on the solid 16.10 Ubuntu release. This is our first release that follows Ubuntu release cycle – we have worked on getting closely aligned our alpha and two betas in the same manner as Ubuntu and the other official community…

HOW DO I UPGRADE TO BUDGIE-REMIX 16.10 ? Good question – our recommended upgrade method is below – please follow this if you intend to upgrade to budgie-remix 16.10 from budgie-remix 16.04.1. BEST METHOD clean install – backup what you need to a USB external drive and restore later. ALTERNATIVELY UPGRADE AS FOLLOWS: IMPORTANT: backup…

Howdy, budgie-remix users! We’re proud to announce another release of budgie-remix. This time, we’re publishing the beta 2 for the new budgie-remix based on Ubuntu 16.10. While this beta is not final release, it does contain most of the bug fixes and new features that you are going to see with budgie-remix 16.10 final release.…

After taking a bit of a breather over the summer holidays the team are back in full swing. FUNDRAISING We have had a substantial financial donation – thanks Felix! We do need you to help us to remain a viable distro – so if you can afford the cost of just one of your favourite coffee in…