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Snap interview with Krita

by Michael Hall on 4 October 2016

This is the second in a series of interviews with Snap adopters, you can read the first interview here. If you have an interesting snap story to tell,...

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Meet ORWL. The first open source, physically secure computer

by Guest on 29 September 2016

This is a guest post by Daniel Nelson from Design Shift, makers of ORWL. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

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Releasing the 4.1.0 Ubuntu SDK IDE

by Canonical on 29 September 2016

The testing phase took longer than we have expected but finally we are ready. To compensate this delay we have even upgraded the IDE to the most recent 4.1.0...

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Low Graphics Mode in Unity 7

by Will Cooke on 19 September 2016

Unity 7 has had a low graphics mode for a long time but recently we’ve been making it better. Improvements have been made to reduce the amount of visual...

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25 Linux devices to celebrate 25 years of Linux

by Amrisha Prashar on 25 August 2016

Happy 25th birthday Linux. It’s a monumental milestone! Over the years Canonical has been working on putting Linux in the hands of millions of people and...

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Howdy, Windows! A Six-part Series about Ubuntu-on-Windows for Linux.com

by Dustin Kirkland on 9 August 2016

I hope you’ll enjoy a shiny new 6-part blog series I recently published at Linux.com.The first article is a bit of back story, perhaps a behind-the-scenes...

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The App Design Guides go live (bit by bit)

by Stephanie on 2 August 2016

The App Design Guides have a new design and content refresh to better communicate the new convergent UI toolkit, and visualise best practice for designers and...

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Best converged apps

by Amrisha Prashar on 2 August 2016

In June we hosted a competition that asked developers – how well their app converges across devices? We were looking out for apps that beautifully converged...

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Ubuntu version 16.04 point 1 is out

by Will Cooke on 28 July 2016

Today we have enabled upgrade notifications from 14.04 LTS to the first point-release for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, versioned 16.04.1. The first point release for an...

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Skype for Ubuntu…available in Beta mode!

by Canonical on 13 July 2016

Super exciting news for the Ubuntu and Linux community! News has just been announced that the Beta version of a new Skype for Linux has been launched! A brand...

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Contributing to the world of snaps

by Canonical on 7 July 2016

Zygmunt Krynicki wrote about the availability of bite-sized bugs for the snapd project.I took this as an opportunity to go through the snapcraft bugs as well...

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Mycroft: The open source answer to natural language platforms

by Amrisha Prashar on 7 July 2016

We’re thrilled to be working with Mycroft, the open source answer to proprietary natural language platform. Mycroft has adopted Ubuntu Core and Snaps to...