Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu Desktop"

320 posts

Alan Pope
24 July 2018

Graphical Abstinence, Living the Terminal Life

Article Cloud and server

In today’s modern world of multi-gigabyte browser based applications we can get overwhelmed by busy, interrupting graphical environments. Sometimes it’s nice to downsize and focus, VT100-style. So let’s leverage the power of the terminal to get stuff done with a selection of apps, utilities and a couple of games for...

Alan Pope
24 July 2018

Canonical
20 July 2018

PowerShell launches as a snap

Article Cloud and server

PowerShell Core from Microsoft is now available for Linux as a Snap. Built on the .NET Framework, PowerShell is an open source task-based command-line shell and scripting language with the goal of being the ubiquitous language for managing hybrid cloud assets. It is designed specifically for system administrators and...

Canonical
20 July 2018

Alan Pope
18 July 2018

Perfectly Formed Snaps Challenge

Development Cloud and server

Summer is here (sorry Southern hemisphere), and with the World Cup and Wimbledon over, it’s time for a new challenge! Background Snaps are universal Linux software packages. That means they can work anywhere, and contain anything. Whether you’re a Pythonista, a Golang developer or if C++ is your bag, Snapcraft can...

Alan Pope
18 July 2018

Martin Wimpress
17 July 2018

Get productive on the Linux desktop with 7 essential apps

Article Desktop

The Linux desktop is not just for people who like to mess with computers. With a wide range of enterprise class productivity and collaboration tools Linux users can enjoy computing parity with their peers and colleagues running other popular desktop computing platforms. Here are 7 apps that will boost your productivity...

Martin Wimpress
17 July 2018

Martin Wimpress
10 July 2018

6 IDEs you need to know about

Article Desktop

Linux has long been a favourite platform with developers due to the rich array of languages and toolchains available. In this article we highlight 6 IDEs that can boost your productivity. Each IDE is just a Snap away so you can easily craft your complete development workstation in seconds. Here are six of the best

Martin Wimpress
10 July 2018

Canonical
10 July 2018

Infographic: Ubuntu connects everything

Article Cloud and server

As highlighted in the Ubuntu is Everywhere infographic to coincide with the 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu is used by millions across every sector and technology imaginable. Two years on, and with 18.04 LTS now released, we take a new look at how Ubuntu has evolved and is at the heart of emerging technologies including AI, blockchain,

Canonical
10 July 2018

Alan Pope
3 July 2018

Fresh Snaps from June 2018

Article Desktop

It’s mid-way through the year, and we’re seeing no let-up with the flow of new snaps landing in the store, we can barely keep up! This month we’ve picked out some of our favourites from the last month or so of social posts on the Snapcraft Twitter account for you. Many are fresh new snaps

Alan Pope
3 July 2018

Will Cooke
20 June 2018

Report from the GNOME Software design sprint

Article Desktop

  A couple of weeks ago representatives from across Canonical met in London to talk about ideas to improve the user experience of GNOME Software.  We had people from the store team, snap advocacy, snapd, design and from the desktop team. We were also fortunate enough to be joined by Richard Hughes representing upstream GNOME

Will Cooke
20 June 2018

Sarah Dickinson
19 June 2018

Zenkit: The influence of developer communities in progressing snaps

Article Desktop

Last month, Zenkit published their project management tool as a snap. For those not familiar with Zenkit, they introduced themselves in a guest blog at the time the snap was published which can be read here. Since then, we caught up with Philipp Beck, Full Stack Developer at Zenkit, to discover his opinion on snaps

Sarah Dickinson
19 June 2018

Alan Pope
5 June 2018

Fresh Snaps from May 2018

Desktop Desktop

Spring has sprung a bounty of applications in the snap store! We’ve hand picked a small selection from those we highlighted during May 2018. You can stay up to date with our editorial picks by following Snapcraft on Facebook where we share three new and interesting snaps a week. We’d also love to hear what

Alan Pope
5 June 2018

Guest
8 May 2018

An introduction to Zenkit – now available as a snap

Article Desktop

This is a guest blog written by Siobhan O’Rorke of Zenkit. In October 2016, Zenkit was released as an app designed to help you ‘organise anything’, enabling companies to digitise all of their business processes in a single app. It’s innovative approach to presenting data has since garnered worldwide attention, and high...

Guest
8 May 2018

Canonical
26 April 2018

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS optimised for security, multi-cloud, containers & AI

News Canonical announcements

26th April 2018, London, UK: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – the newest version of the most widely used Linux for workstations, cloud and IoT, is now available. “Multi-cloud operations are the new normal” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu. “Boot-time and performance-optimised images of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

Canonical
26 April 2018

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2018

Ora as a snap: ensuring users are benefiting from the latest version

Article Desktop

Ora is a user-friendly task management service with integrated time-tracking, reports, list view, git integrations and many other features. Often referred to by users as ‘the sweet spot between Trello and Jira’, Ora provides almost a complete match of Jira’s feature set but in a new and more accessible way. Last month,...

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2018

Sarah Dickinson
29 March 2018

Growing ONLYOFFICE through snaps and the Snap Store

Article Desktop

  ONLYOFFICE is a project developed by IT experts from the Latvian company Ascensio System SIA. WIth ONLYOFFICE business solutions, which are the primary product range, you can run a fast and secure cloud office that comprises powerful online document editors and multiple business tools (CRM, project management, mail...

Sarah Dickinson
29 March 2018

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