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User acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis CI
by elopio on 5 July 2017
Travis CI offers a great continuous integrationservice for the projects hosted in GitHub. With it you can run tests, deliverartifacts and deploy services on...
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Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges
by Iain Lane on 3 July 2017
I work at Canonical, on the desktop team. The team works on Ubuntu Desktop, publishing a release every six months containing the fruits of our efforts — or at...
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Build, test, and publish snap packages using snapcraft
by Guest on 28 June 2017
This is a guest post by Ricardo Feliciano, Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 23, 2017
by Will Cooke on 23 June 2017
GNOME We’ve migrated ubuntu-session to a new unity-session package. This means that the default session is GNOME Shell and people can install Unity 7 and its...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 16, 2017
by Will Cooke on 16 June 2017
GNOME Further theme fixes have been made in Artful to get GNOME Shell and Ambiance looking just right. Network Manager is updated to 1.8. It is currently...
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Gitter and Mattermost: two desktop apps for your future chat platform
by David Callé on 15 June 2017
In the hunt for the perfect communication platform or protocol, a lot of companies are experimenting, which can lead to some confusion as not everyone is...
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Project Sputnik: crazy idea to community driven developer systems
by Guest on 14 June 2017
This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Five years ago, I...
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Vectr: a fresh take on vector graphics edition on Linux
by David Callé on 13 June 2017
There is new desktop app available in the Snap store: Vectr. A free vector graphics editor for the Web and the Linux desktop Following the Inkscape snap,...
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Ubuntu Desktop – GNOME Extensions poll results
by Ken VanDine on 12 June 2017
Recently, with the help from our friends at OMG! Ubuntu, we ran a poll to collect data on usefulness of some GNOME Shell extensions. We limited the poll to a...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 9, 2017
by Will Cooke on 9 June 2017
GNOME We’ve made the decision to switch to using GNOME Display Manager (GDM) instead of LightDM. We had planned to try LightDM, and based on our...
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Kernel Team Summary- June 8, 2017
by Canonical on 8 June 2017
Introduction This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Kernel Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects...