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Quick overview of Budgie Welcome Application
Budgie Welcome is the first thing we see when we boot a Live ISO, and after we complete our install. But do we really know what it offers? In this quick write up, I am going to walk you through all the features of this small but very useful Welcome application. Budgie Welcome is a…
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Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 Wallpaper Contest
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 LTS release is just around the corner, as the team is rushing to complete the last few tasks, I want to take a moment to write about my amazing experience with both our community and Ubuntu Budgie team. Contest Starting in 3…2…1… In November 2021, I posted about our wallpaper contest for…
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Ubuntu Budgie and Orchis theme deliver a smooth, elegant desktop experience
With this quick write up I am going to show you a theme we recently added to Ubuntu Budgie. Vinceliuice, the author of this theme, delivered an awesome GTK/GNOME theme called Orchis. And how could we miss it? As soon as we saw it, we asked David to get it in our "Themes and Layouts"…
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Ubuntu Budgie 21.10 Released!
We are pleased to announce the release of the next version of our distro, 21.10. This is a regular release supported for 9 months. For those looking for a longer term support release we recommend our 20.04 LTS version which is supported for 3 years. Key highlights: Release of our second Raspberry Pi image. brand…
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Ubuntu Budgie 21.10 Release Notes
Ubuntu Budgie v21.10 (Impish Indri) Release: 14th Oct, 2021 Ubuntu Budgie 21.10 is a normal release that will be supported for 9 months until Jul 2022. Long Term Releases such as 20.04.3 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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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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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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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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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…
