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Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 Official Flavor Debuts as First Long-Term Supported Version

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Marius Nestor
Apr 26, 2018

Powered by Linux 4.15 kernel and shipping with the same internals as Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), the Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 LTS official flavor will be supported for three years, until April 2021, and ships with the latest Budgie Desktop 10.4 “Irish Summer” desktop environment by default, accompanied by GNOME 3.28 applications. Prominent new features include support for adding OpenVNC connections through the NetworkManager applet, better font handling for Chinese and Korean languages, improved keyboard shortcuts, color emoji support for GNOME Characters and other GNOME apps, as well as window-shuffler capability.

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Marius Nestor

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