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Week 33 of 2017 in snapcraft
by Sergio Schvezov on 22 August 2017
Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 14 until August 20 of 2017. Development in master Last week, error...
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Git Ubuntu: More on the imported repositories
by Robie Basak on 21 August 2017
This is the third post in our series on our git workflow tooling in Ubuntu. There is an index of all our planned posts in the first post. As mentioned there,...
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Security Team Weekly Summary: August 17, 2017
by Canonical on 17 August 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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Week 32 In Snapcraft
by Sergio Schvezov on 15 August 2017
Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 7 until August 13 of 2017. Development in master The theme of code landing...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: August 11, 2017
by Will Cooke on 11 August 2017
GUADEC The GNOME conference happened last week with good representation from Ubuntu. The spirit was good and the discussions constructive. Decisions were...
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How to sign things for Secure Boot
by Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre on 11 August 2017
Secure Boot signing The whole concept of Secure Boot requires that there exists a trust chain, from the very first thing loaded by the hardware (the firmware...
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Security Team Weekly Summary: August 10, 2017
by Canonical on 10 August 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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Fresh Snaps from July 2017
by Thibaut Rouffineau on 10 August 2017
If you’re thinking July = holidays… think again! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about productivity. Graphic design tools, web code editor, Go IDE,...
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git ubuntu clone
by Canonical on 9 August 2017
This is the second post in a collaborative series between Robie Basak and myself to introduce (more formally) git ubuntuto a broader audience. There is an...
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Ubuntu Artful Desktop Fit and Finish Sprint
by Alan Pope on 8 August 2017
The Artful development cycle is full speed ahead to the Ubuntu 17.10 release in October. As you may have heard, we’re switching the default desktop from Unity...
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Stable releases, sprints, & more: A snapd recap
by Gustavo Niemeyer on 3 August 2017
The past few weeks have been very busy in the snapd world, and involved not only coding by itself but also face-to-face meet ups to discuss and detail what is...
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Upgrading your Ubuntu-on-Windows install to the app version
by Canonical on 3 August 2017
Our team and Microsoft recently released Ubuntu as a Windows app store application! If you toyed with the “bash on Ubuntu on Windows” version before and would...