It’s Official: Fedora Linux 38 Will Offer Fedora Budgie and Sway Spins
Ex-Solus project leader and Budgie desktop maintainer Joshua Strobl announced today on social media that an official Fedora Budgie Spin featuring the latest Budgie desktop environment is coming as part of the Fedora Linux 38 release in late April 2023.
Budgie desktop is an independently-developed desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, initially created by Ikey Doherty for the Solus distribution. Budgie is now actively maintained by a team of contributors led by Joshua Strobl and it’s available for other popular distros like Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora Linux.
Update (by Roy)
Larabel and Scott Bouvier also cover this now.
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Fedora Approves Official Budgie - Sway Spins - OMG! Linux
When Fedora 38 is released in April it be available in two new spins.
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) unanimously voted to approve the creation of an official Fedora Spin using the Sway window manager by default, and an official Fedora spin built with the popular Budgie desktop environment.
Sway and Budgie are already available for Fedora users to install on current versions of the distro, with the Budgie packages officially landing last spring.
Later coverage (Wednesday):
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Official Fedora Budgie - Sway Spins to Arrive With Fedora 38 Release
In the case of Sway spin: It will aim to provide a minimal experience and will only include a few elements on top of the default configuration.
When to expect these?: As the development of Fedora 38 picks up over the coming months, you can expect the spins to appear during April 2023. Of course, there will be separate ISO files with Budgie and Sway pre-installed.
So, I think it would be fascinating to see the experience of Budgie with Fedora, especially when the development of Budgie seems to be going through some interesting changes.
Fabio Alessandro Locati's blog:
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Fedora Sway artifacts approved by FESCo
Back in August, I asked for suggestions for a name for an os-tree-based Fedora version with Sway. Although I’ve not posted anything more on the topic, the work went forward.
We have asked Fedora Council to approve the naming, to FESCo for the approval for the change to Fedora, and to RelEng support to merge our work in the Fedora workstream.
A couple of weeks ago, the Fedora Council approved the request to create a “traditional” spin called “Fedora Sway spin” as well as an os-tree spin called “Fedora Sericea”.
Very late coverage today:
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Fedora 38 Will Include a Budgie Spin
The Fedora Project has announced it will offer a spin based on the Budgie desktop environment (DE), beginning with Fedora 38.
Fedora is one of the most popular Linux distributions (distros) and serves as the upstream distro for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The flagship Fedora release, Fedora Workstation, uses the Gnome DE, but the project maintains a number of spins. Each of these spins uses a different DE, such as KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, and more.
Budgie is a popular DE that was originally created for the Solus distro, but has become popular outside of Solus. The Fedora Project announced the DE will be one of its next official spins.