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The MirAL story

by Guest on 3 April 2017

This is a guest post by Alan Griffiths, Software Developer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

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Mobile World Congress 2017: day four recap

by Canonical on 2 March 2017

Today was the final day for Mobile World Congress 2017.  It has been a long, hectic, but exciting week. For starters, we had a record number of visitors to...

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Why does software-defined everything matter?

by Canonical on 22 February 2017

Does anybody still think of a phone as a way of just making calls? According to Informate Mi less than 10% of the time you spend on a phone is spent giving...

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Snapcraft 2.27 has been released

by Sergio Schvezov on 17 February 2017

Hello snapcrafters! We are pleased to announce the release snapcraft 2.27: https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.27 Contributions This release has seen...

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8 KDE snaps written in January

by didrocks on 9 February 2017

It’s a special this month. Instead of our round-up of desktop snaps, we’re focusing on KDE! 8 KDE snaps written in January have been selected from a...

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Winners of #UbuntuAtMWC

by Amrisha Prashar on 19 January 2017

A couple weeks ago we held a competition to invite you to join us at MWC by telling us what you wanted to see from #UbuntuAtMWC across Cloud, Devices or IoT!...

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Mir: 2016 end of year review

by Guest on 17 January 2017

This is a guest post by Alan Griffiths, Software engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

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Welcome the new Ubuntu-based Precision line-up

by Guest on 13 January 2017

This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Today I am excited...

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How to snap: introducing classic confinement

by David Callé on 9 January 2017

Last Thursday, January 5, the snapd team was delighted to announce a new release of snapd (2.20), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and...

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Interested in joining us at MWC?

by Amrisha Prashar on 5 January 2017

Mobile World Congress is round the corner! We’ll be in Hall P3 and can’t wait to see those of you that can make it there. So we’re giving away tickets!...

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10 desktop snaps written in December

by Amrisha Prashar on 5 January 2017

It’s that time of the month! Evan Dandrea put together a selection of top ten snaps written in December. To recap for those of you that may not know, snaps...

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Jamming with Ubuntu Core

by April Wang on 7 December 2016

We celebrated the launch of Ubuntu Core 16 hackathon, or shall we say Snapathon, that took place in Shenzhen between 26-27th November. The 30+ hour gathering...