Budgie – An Elegant, Lightweight And Simple Desktop

About Budgie

Budgie is the flagship desktop of the Evolve OS Linux Distribution. It is designed with the modern user in mind, it focuses on simplicity and elegance. A huge advantage for the Budgie desktop is that it is not a fork of another project, but rather one written from scratch with integration in mind. The Budgie Desktop tightly integrates with the GNOME stack, employing underlying technologies to offer an alternative desktop experience. In the spirit of open source, the project is compatible with and available for other Linux distributions including Fedora and openSUSE etc. Budgie can now emulate the look and feel of the GNOME 2 desktop, optionally, via a setting in the panel preferences.

Installation

On Ubuntu and derivatives:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:evolve-os/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install budgie-desktop

On Fedora 21, install Budgie as shown below with root user:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ikeydoherty:evolve/Fedora_21/home:ikeydoherty:evolve.repo
yum install budgie-desktop

On Fedora 20, install Budgie as shown below with root user:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ikeydoherty:evolve/Fedora_20/home:ikeydoherty:evolve.repo
yum install budgie-desktop

On openSUSE:

For openSUSE Factory run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ikeydoherty:evolve/openSUSE_Factory/home:ikeydoherty:evolve.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install budgie-desktop

For openSUSE 13.2 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ikeydoherty:evolve/openSUSE_13.2/home:ikeydoherty:evolve.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install budgie-desktop

For openSUSE 13.1 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ikeydoherty:evolve/openSUSE_13.1/home:ikeydoherty:evolve.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install budgie-desktop

For GNOME STABLE 3.12 openSUSE 13.1 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ikeydoherty:evolve/GNOME_STABLE_3.12_openSUSE_13.1/home:ikeydoherty:evolve.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install budgie-desktop

Or you can directly download the binary files and install it.

Packages for openSUSE Factory:
Packages for openSUSE 13.2:
Packages for openSUSE 13.1:
Packages for GNOME STABLE 3.12 openSUSE 13.1:

After downloading the required rpm, install it as shown below with root user.

rpm -Uvh budgie-desktop-8.1-3.1.i586.rpm

Using Budgie desktop

Now log out and select Budgie as your default DE and log in to your system.

Workspace 1_005

Be mindful that Budgie is still under heavy development. Your system may crash, hang, or your Budgie menu will not even show the installed applications.

Hope the developers will release the stable version soon.

That’s it. More details can be found here.

Cheers!