Budgie (desktop environment)
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Budgie v10.2.8 running on Solus 1.2.1 | |
Developer(s) | Ikey Doherty and Solus project team |
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Initial release | December 7, 2013 |
Stable release |
10.2.8
/ October 19, 2016 |
Development status | Active |
Written in | C, Vala |
Operating system | Unix-like with X11 (X Window System) |
Available in | Multilingual |
Type | Desktop environment |
License | GNU LGPLv2.1 for libraries, GNU GPLv2 for binaries |
Website |
solus-project |
Budgie is a distro-agnostic desktop environment, leveraging GNOME technologies such as GTK+, and is developed by Solus project as well as contributors from numerous communities such as Arch Linux and Ubuntu Budgie.
History
Budgie was initially developed as the default desktop environment for the Evolve OS Linux distribution. After the name change of Evolve OS to Solus project, development of Budgie accelerated. Budgie desktop tightly integrates with the GNOME stack, employing underlying technologies to offer an alternative desktop experience.
Software components
Releases history
Date | Version |
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2014-02-18 | v1 |
2014-03-12 | v2 |
2014-07-13 | v4 |
2014-07-20 | v5.1 |
2014-08-20 | v6 |
2014-09-02 | v7 "Bodacious Budgie" |
2014-11-16 | v8 "Courageous Budgie" |
2015-12-27 | v10 |
2016-03-27 | 10.2.5 |
2016-09-10 | 10.2.7 "The Easter Budgie" |
2016-10-19 | 10.2.8 |
Adoption
Arch Linux
Budgie Desktop is available in Arch Linux's Community repository[1] as well as distributed as budgie-desktop-git in the Arch User Repository.
Gecko Linux
Gecko Linux, an openSUSE-based distribution, provides GeckoLinux Budgie.[2]
Manjaro
In November 2015, the Manjaro Community announced the availability of Manjaro Budgie.[3]
On June 14, 2016, the Manjaro Community announced the availability of Manjaro Budgie 16.06.1.[4]
Solus
Solus's primary desktop environment is Budgie.[5]
Leap
Leap's primary desktop environment is Budgie
Ubuntu Budgie
On November 8,2016, the budgie-remix team announced that from 17.04, the budgie-remix distro will be an officially supported Ubuntu flavor and will be re-branded as Ubuntu Budgie.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ "Arch Linux - budgie-desktop 10.2.7-3". archlinux.org. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
- ↑ "GeckoLinux by geckolinux". geckolinux.githhub.io. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
- ↑ "Manjaro Budgie 15.11 released". manjaro.github.io.
- ↑ "Manjaro Budgie 16.06.1". forum.manjaro.org.
- ↑ "Solus". solus-project.com. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
- ↑ "It's official!". budgie-remix.org. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
External links
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