Budgie is a modern desktop environment developed by Solus Project. Main focus of budgie desktop is simplicity and elegance. It is independently developed from scratch to provide optimal performance, traditional user experience without compromising productivity and user friendliness.

Currently Budgie desktop is tightly integrated with GNOME stack, which means it makes use of gnome components where ever it is possible without brining the complexity of GNOME in. Future releases of Budgie Desktop, beginning from Budgie 11 based on C/C++ and Qt framework to make it more efficient and reliable.

Though budgie is flagship desktop for Solus, it is also available for other major GNU/Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch, Cinnamon ..etc. Some of them are officially published by Solus project while others are published by different community developers.

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Home Page	http://budgie-desktop.org/
Distributions with Budgie Desktop	Manjaro Linux Solus Ubuntu Budgie Ultimate Edition
Websites Who Run off of Desktop Budgie	Austin Housing Summit Duke Rolling Machine First Federal Bank KY

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Budgie Desktop releases

• Budgie Desktop 10.4 released; Implements long awaited features
• Budgie Desktop 10.3.x released; Fixes long standing issues and introduces essential features
• Budgie 10.2.9 released; A quick bug fix release

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Stories on Budgie Desktop

• Budgie Desktop is getting merged with Solus
• Budgie Desktop 10.3 development is in progress; Main focus is robustness
• Budgie Desktop is getting it's own website