14 DAY TRIAL // The Ubuntu Budgie devs are back from the Christmas and New Year's break with a vengeance, and they've just announced the availability of daily build ISO images for the upcoming Ubuntu Budgie 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) operating system.
At the end of 2016, they promised us that we'd be able to get our hands on the daily build ISO images of Ubuntu Budgie 17.04, and here they are, available for download as we speak for 64- and 32-bit hardware architectures from Canonical's download servers, along with all the other official flavors.
For your viewing pleasure, and ours, we downloaded the latest 64-bit Live ISO image to make a quick screenshot tour of the distribution, which is built around the lightweight Budgie desktop environment developed by the Solus Project (yes, the people behind the popular Solus distro).
Uses Linux kernel 4.9 and Budgie 10.2.9
As you'll see if you access the screenshot gallery at the end of the article, Ubuntu Budgie 17.04 shaped up pretty nicely, and the Budgie 10.2.9 desktop environment looks glorious. The distro currently runs on the latest Linux 4.9 kernel, just like the rest of the Ubuntu Linux flavors of the upcoming Zesty Zapus series.
On the applications side, Ubuntu Budgie 17.04 comes pre-installed with the Chromium web browser, Geary email client, Transmission BitTorrent client, Plank dock, LibreOffice office suite, and a bunch of well-known apps from the GNOME Stack, including Maps, Photos, Weather, Documents, Files, Calendar, and Contacts.
If you'd like to test drive it, we invite you to download either the 64-bit or 32-bit Live ISO images of Ubuntu Budgie 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) right now through our web portal, but please try to keep in mind that these are the first development builds of the upcoming Linux OS, which shouldn't be used as your daily driver just yet.
17.04 Daily Builds now available for @UbuntuBudgie intrepid testers! - https://t.co/NuJDDO6pG0 ... the journey begins! pic.twitter.com/BOKyMa0lji — Ubuntu Budgie (@UbuntuBudgie) January 5, 2017
