Ubuntu Budgie is the newest official flavor of Ubuntu

[cbn]

https://liliputing.com/2016/11/ubuntu-budgie-latest-official-flavor-ubuntu-linux.html

Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux-based operating systems, but there’s not just one version of Ubuntu. While the developers at Canonical ship an operating system with the company’s own Unity desktop environment, there are also a number of additional community “flavors” of Ubuntu with alternate environments such as KDE, LXDE, Xfce, GNOME, and MATE. Now there’s one more.

Ubuntu Budgie is a version of the operating system which uses the relatively new Budgie environment.

A team of developers had been working on an unofficial project called Budgie Remix, but starting with Ubuntu 17.04, which is set to launch in April, there will be an official Ubuntu Budgie build available for download.

Official flavor status means that the Budgie team will get a link on the official Ubuntu website, but it also means that the developers of the software will play a larger role in the Ubuntu community.

As for Budgie, it’s a desktop environment developed by the makers of Solus Linux. It incorporates many features of GNOME including support for GNOME-specific software packages, but has its own distinct, light-weight user interface including a Budge Menu and a customizable notification area called Raven which allows you to choose and arrrange aplets for things like calendar, volume, and media player controls.

Some info on the Solus project from Linux.com


https://www.linux.com/news/best-linux-distros-2016

Best Newcomer: Solus
Solus operating system has garnered quite a lot of attention lately. It’s a decent-looking operating system that has been created from scratch. It’s not a derivative of Debian or Ubuntu. It comes with the Budgie desktop environment, which was built from scratch but aims to integrate with Gnome. Solus has the same minimalistic approach as Google’s Chrome OS.

Downloading Ubuntu Budgie 16.10 iso now.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Cool! Thanks for the Heads-up!

 

[cytg111]

Let us know how it fares.
I am pretty dissapointed with Ubuntu as of 16.04, tried vanilla and Unity just crapped all over me, istalled mate desktop, that was better still not good and then.. ppa discontinued, off of mate again and back to crap unity.
- Wont detect my 1680x150 acer as anything other than an ancient CRT
- Tearing on all playback on a 4K asus + nvidia kepler
- Lag.
- Unity crashes.
- Mouse acceleration
- much more i cant remember right now

Ubuntu was good at one time, now it is a nucience

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Let us know how it fares.
I am pretty dissapointed with Ubuntu as of 16.04, tried vanilla and Unity just crapped all over me, istalled mate desktop, that was better still not good and then.. ppa discontinued, off of mate again and back to crap unity.
- Wont detect my 1680x150 acer as anything other than an ancient CRT
- Tearing on all playback on a 4K asus + nvidia kepler
- Lag.
- Unity crashes.
- Mouse acceleration
- much more i cant remember right now

Ubuntu was good at one time, now it is a nucience

Newer DEs tend to suck. Too creative for their own good.

Try Lubuntu, xUbuntu, or Mint.