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elementary on why snaps are right for their Linux distro
by Sarah Dickinson on 11 October 2017
elementary is the company behind the elementary OS Linux distribution and the associated app store. Celebrating their tenth anniversary this year, elementary...
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Security Team Update: October 5, 2017
by Canonical on 5 October 2017
The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security...
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Heroku as a snap: talking security, Snapcraft & daily updates
by Sarah Dickinson on 4 October 2017
Created 10 years ago and now owned by Salesforce, Heroku is a hosted cloud platform as a service (PaaS) which makes it easy for developers to run apps and...
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Snap install-time setup: the install hook
by Kyle Fazzari on 3 October 2017
This article originally appeared on Kyle’s blog When it comes to developing snaps, there’s a particular confusion out there that I see over and over again:...
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Security Team Weekly Summary: September 27, 2017
by Canonical on 28 September 2017
The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security...
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UbuCon Europe 2017
by Guest on 25 September 2017
This is a guest post by Marius Quabeck. I’ve been to many Ubuntu related events before, but what surprises me every time about UbuCons is the outstanding work...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 22, 2017
by Will Cooke on 22 September 2017
We’re less than a week away from Final Beta! It seems to have come round very quickly this cycle. Next week we’re at the Ubuntu Rally in New York City where...
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Results of the Ubuntu Desktop Applications Survey
by Dustin Kirkland on 19 September 2017
I had the distinct honor to deliver the closing keynote of the UbuCon Europe conference in Paris a few weeks ago. First off — what a beautiful conference and...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 15, 2017
by Will Cooke on 15 September 2017
A fairly short update this week as we’re in bug fixing mode ahead of final beta in a couple of weeks. GNOME This week saw the release of GNOME 3.26, and we’re...
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Security Team Weekly Summary: September 14, 2017
by Canonical on 14 September 2017
The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security...
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Congratulations to GNOME on the release of 3.26
by Will Cooke on 13 September 2017
From everyone at Ubuntu, our hearty congratulations and thanks for the 3.26 release. As you’re no doubt aware by now the next release of Ubuntu, the Artful...
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Week 36 of 2017 in snapcraft
by Sergio Schvezov on 13 September 2017
Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from 03 September until 09 September of 2017. Highlights snapcraft 2.34 has been...