Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 Beta

https://ubuntubudgie.org/blog/2018/03/08/18-04-release-notes

by oedmarap • 8 years ago

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convery• 8 years ago

Great to see progress as it's a really nice environment. Sadly I had a lot of random issues with the previous version (e.g. pressing the 'windows-key' would crash the manager) and had to switch to Solus to keep it. Can't wait to try it again when it goes out of beta =P

rafael859• 8 years ago

Here's the webarchive mirror https://web.archive.org/web/20180310014632/https://ubuntubud... since it seems to be down at the moment (as well as an hour ago when I last checked).

samcheng• 8 years ago

Is this an LTS release? 16.04 is fine, but it'd be nice to upgrade.

Rapzid• 8 years ago

Heck yeah it is!

strmpnk• 8 years ago

Yes. It will be an LTS release. You can find a list of all releases here on their wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

rawoke083600• 8 years ago

I hope they sorted the wifi - 17.10 was/is horrendous with my wifi :( 17.04 seemed to worked fine.

gonvaled• 8 years ago

What is this "Budgie" thing? It is called "Bionic Beaver"!

Since when do we have extra names? What is "Trusty Tahr" then?

pas• 8 years ago

Ubuntu Budgie is a community developed distribution, integrating the Budgie Desktop Environment with Ubuntu at its core.

okket• 8 years ago

From a marketing perspective it sounds a bit like an Ubuntu product or version, like "Debian Wheezy". Confusing name choice IMHO.

Tsiklon• 8 years ago

This is one of the official Ubuntu Flavours:

Ubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Gnome, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio.

All share the same software repositories, and are collections of similar or related software packaged together - mostly based on desktop environment

Ubuntu and Ubuntu Gnome both use Gnome Ubuntu Mate - Mate desktop environment, Kubuntu - KDE, Xubuntu - XFCE, Ubuntu Budgie - Budgie desktop,

Bionic Beaver is the code name for 18.04 LTS. The confusion stems from Budgie also being named after an animal.

ProxCoques• 8 years ago

Hoping for HDPI support - fingers crossed!

ktpsns• 8 years ago

Never heard of the underlying https://budgie-desktop.org/ before. And could not learn anything about it on its website: No screenshots, no description about the framework (Qt? GTK?).

In former days of the lightweight but "full featured" desktops, there was Xfce desktop. Then there was LXDE. Which was surprisingly faster and similiar powerful then Xfce. But then I somehow lost track ;-)

sccxy• 8 years ago

First search result for "Ubuntu Budgie" is https://ubuntubudgie.org/

They have lots of screenshots & videos.

type02• 8 years ago

I think it's GTK, but since it's a Solus Linux project there was some talk that it would be moving to Qt soon. It reuses some chunks of GNOME 3 though. I like how it's seem to be a good alternative to Cinnamon desktop env., probably doen't have as many features but should be easy to use for Linux newbies (which GNOME3 isn't).

Redoubts• 8 years ago

When Budgie first started out way back in 2013, it had very very simple aims. It could quite easily sit on top of the GNOME 3.10 stack, and utilize all of the components with no issue.
As a result, Budgie 11, the next major release, will be built using Qt 5, C++, and Wayland. Using these technologies, we seek to provide a refined version of the experience you know and love, but with fluid, accelerated animations, a beautiful user interface, and full integration of Raven to be a first class component.

https://budgie-desktop.org/about/

mnm1• 8 years ago

Can one turn those animations off? They might be nice the first few hundred or even thousand times, but afterwards, they will be despised.

sandstrom• 8 years ago

To avoid confusion:

This is _not_ the upcoming release of Ubuntu 18.04, which is named 'Bionic Beaver'.

18.04 Bionic Beaver will land in mid April.

Budgie is a flavor/edition/derivative of Ubuntu. Other examples of derivatives are Edubuntu (for education) and Ubuntu Studio (for multimedia editing).

More about different derivative here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives

jason_slack• 8 years ago

This looks impressive.

General question if I install this in beta can I just keep upgrading the betas and then to the release version without wiping and reloading?

type02• 8 years ago

I would like to run Budgie on Debian but it I'm not sure how much headache I would get if I do...

Edit: Debian Stretch (stable) that is

minieggs• 8 years ago

If you're on Buster or newer I would look into it. If Stretch and prior you'll get a very outdated version that is not as customizable.

I'm on Buster currently. It was as easy as installing budgie-desktop and restarting.

Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 Beta

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