Blog posts written by Igor Ljubuncic

Igor Ljubuncic
24 January 2024

Canonical’s recipe for High Performance Computing

HPC HPC

In essence, High Performance Computing (HPC) is quite simple. Speed and scale. In practice, the concept is quite complex and hard to achieve. It is not dissimilar to what happens when you go from a regular car to a supercar or a hypercar – the challenges and problems you encounter at 100 km/h are vastly

Igor Ljubuncic
24 January 2024

Igor Ljubuncic
10 January 2024

High Performance Computing – It’s all about the bottleneck

Article HPC

The term High Performance Computing, HPC, evokes a lot of powerful emotions whenever mentioned. Even people who do not necessarily have vocational knowledge of hardware and software will have an inkling of understanding of what it’s all about; HPC solves problems at speed and scale that cannot be achieved with standard,...

Igor Ljubuncic
10 January 2024

Igor Ljubuncic
21 December 2023

We wish you RISC-V holidays!

Article HPC

There are three types of computer users: the end user, the system administrator, and the involuntary system administrator. As it happens, everyone has found themselves in the last group at some point or another; you sit down to perform a task relevant to your needs or duties, but suddenly the machine does not work as

Igor Ljubuncic
21 December 2023

Igor Ljubuncic
23 October 2023

The winter is coming, and so is the Ubuntu Summit

Community Ubuntu

What do drones, elementary particles, air hockey, and the film industry have in common? At first glance, not much. But after giving it some thought, you may realize that, in fact, they do share a rather similar theme. Two words: Ubuntu Summit. The second installment in the reboot series of the Ubuntu Summit will take

Igor Ljubuncic
23 October 2023

Igor Ljubuncic
16 June 2023

Snapcraft 8.0 and the respectable end of core18

Article Ubuntu

‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s passed on! This base is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to the perch ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is software processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s

Igor Ljubuncic
16 June 2023

Igor Ljubuncic
21 March 2023

Craft team welcomes you to another episode of its adventures

Article Ubuntu

Welcome to the second article in the Craft team saga. Previously, on Craft Team, we gave you a brief introduction into the team’s function, we announced our desire to share the ins and outs of our day-to-day work with the community, and gave you an overview of roughly two weeks of coding and fun. Today,

Igor Ljubuncic
21 March 2023

Igor Ljubuncic
6 March 2023

What happens in the Craft team stays in the Craft team … until today

Article Ubuntu

Snapcraft, Charmcraft, Rockcraft … you may have heard of these tools, but have you ever wondered how – and by who – they are developed? These tools are the intellectual and keyboard-driven product of Canonical’s Craft team. Officially, the team’s name is *Craft, and the asterisk symbol can easily be seen as a “star” (The

Igor Ljubuncic
6 March 2023

Igor Ljubuncic
27 January 2023

Jammin’ with Jami – Freedom, privacy, snaps

Article Ubuntu

About a year ago, the Advocacy team established first contact with Savoir-Faire Linux, a free software consultancy company behind Jami, a privacy oriented VoIP and conference platform. The Jami developers were interested in some sort of collaboration with us, and shedding fresh light on their product. Intrigued by their...

Igor Ljubuncic
27 January 2023

Igor Ljubuncic
16 December 2022

Snapcrafters: 2022 wrap-up

Article Community

This article was written by Merlijn Sebrechts and Dani Llewellyn from the Snapcrafters community. ===== Last year, we officially re-launched the “Snapcrafters” initiative. We’re a community of volunteers who build and maintain unofficial snap packages. Although snaps make it easy for developers to publish their software...

Igor Ljubuncic
16 December 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
15 November 2022

Hold your horses, I mean snaps! New feature lets you stop snap updates, for as long as you need

Article Desktop

One of the core aspects of the snap ecosystem is the built-in, robust auto-update mechanism. Whenever there is a snap update available in the Snap Store, the snapd service will apply it, keeping your software patched and up to date. Most of the time, this works great. In some scenarios, though, this may not be

Igor Ljubuncic
15 November 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
4 November 2022

Snaps & better refresh notifications

Article Desktop

Automatic updates grant snap users an ability to receive timely patches to their software, both in aspects of security and functionality. This can be rather useful and convenient, especially for applications that have online access. On the other hand, automatic updates can potentially disrupt users’ workflows if they...

Igor Ljubuncic
4 November 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
14 October 2022

The long ARM of KDE

Article Desktop

With over 100 applications available in the Snap Store, KDE is by far the biggest publisher of snaps around. What unifies this impressive portfolio is the fact that all of these snaps are made for the x86 platform. Not anymore. Now, don’t panic! The x86 snaps are not going anywhere. But ARM-supported KDE snaps are

Igor Ljubuncic
14 October 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
5 July 2022

Behind open DORS – Conference organizers share their thoughts on Canonical, Ubuntu, snaps, and open-source

Article Ubuntu

A Linux conference almost as old as Linux itself. In mid-May, DORS/CLUC hosted its 29th event at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia. With a long history of participation and contribution to open source communities, Canonical was one of the sponsors at the conference, with a busy...

Igor Ljubuncic
5 July 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
24 June 2022

The new classic confinement in snaps – Even the classics need a change

Article Ubuntu

As part of their fundamental, security-driven design, snaps are meant to run isolated from the underlying system. In most cases, the idea works well, and granular access to system resources using the mechanism of interfaces allows snap developers to ship their applications packaged with strict confinement. However,...

Igor Ljubuncic
24 June 2022