Budgie (desktop environment)

Budgie

Budgie v10.2.8 running on Solus 1.2.1
Developer(s) Ikey Doherty and Solus project team
Initial release December 7, 2013 (2013-12-07)
Stable release
10.2.8 / October 19, 2016 (2016-10-19)
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.com/budgie/

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
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

Main article: 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

  1. ↑ "Arch Linux - budgie-desktop 10.2.7-3". archlinux.org. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "GeckoLinux by geckolinux". geckolinux.githhub.io. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "Manjaro Budgie 15.11 released". manjaro.github.io.
  4. ↑ "Manjaro Budgie 16.06.1". forum.manjaro.org.
  5. ↑ "Solus". solus-project.com. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "It's official!". budgie-remix.org. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
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