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Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of the next version of our distro, 24.04 Long Term Support. 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 the Ubuntu Budgie team have been released since the 22.04 release…
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Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 Release Notes
Introduction and overview Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) is a Long Term Support release with 3 years of support by your distro maintainers, from April 2024 to May 2027. These release notes showcase the key takeaways for 22.04 upgraders to 24.04. In these release notes the areas covered are: New features and enhancements released…
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Ubuntu Budgie 23.10 Release Notes
Release notes Introduction and overview Ubuntu Budgie 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) is a normal release with 9 months of support, from Oct 2023 to July 2024. Ubuntu LTS releases are focused on long term support. If stability is more important than having the latest and greatest version of the kernel, desktop environment, and applications then Ubuntu…
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Behind Ubuntu Budgie Infrastructure
Making and maintaining a distribution, be it an independent distro or a flavor of a bigger one, such as Ubuntu Budgie, requires a good infrastructure setup to make sure that everything is reliable and functioning like a well oiled machine. In case of a Ubuntu Budgie, we made sure to make a setup that is…
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Ubuntu Budgie 23.04 Release Notes
Draft release notes Introduction and overview Ubuntu Budgie 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) is a normal release with 9 months of support, from April 2023 to January 2024. Ubuntu LTS releases are focused on long term support. If stability is more important than having the latest and greatest version of the kernel, desktop environment, and applications then…
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Budgie Desktop 10.7.x
Budgie Desktop For Ubuntu Budgie the latest budgie-desktop v10.7.1 is now available for 23.04 out of the box. We have also made this available via our backports-budgie PPA for our 22.04 LTS community: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntubudgie/backports-budgie && sudo apt full-upgrade This is the new version of the Budgie Desktop v10.7 from the BuddiesOfBudgie organisation which…
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New hotcorners feature introduced in 23.04
Introduction With the beta release of 23.04 around the corner, it seems a good moment for another introduction to one of the innovations for Lunar; a new implementation of the hotcorners feature. Hotcorners was completely rewritten and redesigned, to replace the current applet. There are significant differences, both from the user’s perspective and from a…
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New edge tiling introduced in 23.04
Replacing the built-in edge-tiling Introduction In the past few months, we’ve been exploring the options to create a more extended version of the built-in edge tiling, that we have been using for so many years. Ubuntu Budgie’s Window Shuffler already offered (a.o.) quarter & half tiling, activated by keyboard shortcuts, and controlling windows from the…
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Ubuntu Budgie – Annual Financial Statement 2021 – 2022
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 2021 to 2022. We are also very excited to announce that as of May 2022, Ubuntu Budgie is on Open Collective. More details on this below. History Budgie Remix…
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A deep dive in our new Budgie Gaming Application
This is a follow up post of our previous article Quick overview of Budgie Welcome Application. As you might know, our team has been working to improve gaming experience. I am here today to take you through our journey. Soon after I joined the team, mid 2021, I was discussing with David and Nikola about…
