Ubuntu Budgie and Ubuntu Mate 25.04 VM Images for VirtualBox and VMware
Ubuntu Budgie project announced the latest version of Ubuntu Budgie codenamed 25.04 Plucky Puffin: “Ubuntu Budgie 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) is a Standard Release with 9 months of support by your distro maintainers and Canonical, from April 2025 to Jan 2026. In these release notes the areas covered are: New features and enhancements released since 24.10; Upgrading from 24.10 Ubuntu Budgie;; Fixed Issues; Known Issues when upgrading;; Support arrangements for our distro; Where to download Ubuntu Budgie. Our budgie menu applet has now the ability to show terminal based applications in the menu. Show-time now correctly displays across monitors. Budgie welcome now has its plucky configuration. We now include an email ballot page – accessible via Getting Started as well as on first login after installation. Here you can choose to install evolution, geary, kontact, astroid, claws as well as the thunderbird snap…” Read release announcement here.
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Ubuntu Mate project announced the latest version of Ubuntu Mate codenamed 25.04 Plucky Puffin “This release marks the 10th anniversary of Ubuntu MATE becoming an official Ubuntu flavour. Here are the highlights of what’s new in the Plucky Puffin release: Celebrating 10 years as an official Ubuntu flavour; Optional full disk encryption in the installer; Enhanced advanced partitioning options; Better interaction with existing BitLocker-enabled Windows installations; Improved experience when installing alongside other operating systems. Accompanying MATE Desktop and Linux 6.14 are Firefox 137, Evolution 3.56, LibreOffice 25.2.2…” Read release announcement here.
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