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Sarah Dickinson
11 December 2017

Rocket.chat achieves simplicity through snaps

Article Desktop

Switching to snaps, Rocket.Chat has been able to get its product into the hands of users with as few steps as possible, switching a multi-stage set-up process for a single command and instant installation.

Sarah Dickinson
11 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
5 December 2017

Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring

Article Desktop

In the latest interview with a snap developer, we spoke to Ben Gotow who is the lead maintainer of Mailspring, a free, modern email client for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Originally started and open-sourced by Nylas in California, Ben took on the project earlier this year after Nylas changed course and stopped...

Sarah Dickinson
5 December 2017

Will Cooke
1 December 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: December 1, 2017

Article Desktop

GNOME GNOME Disk Utility If you have snaps installed and open the Disks utility, your snaps appear as loop devices. We found this to be confusing and a bit messy, so we have proposed a fix upstream and this should be merged soon. Theme The community theme topic has been very busy on the hub. Yesterday we

Will Cooke
1 December 2017

Will Cooke
1 November 2017

Canonical joins GNOME Foundation Advisory Board

Article Desktop

As you’re no doubt aware, the default Ubuntu desktop is now running GNOME Shell following the 17.10 release and so we naturally have a great deal of interest in the plans and direction of the GNOME project. The best way for us to get more involved in the future of GNOME is to become a

Will Cooke
1 November 2017

Ken VanDine
24 October 2017

Latest and greatest versions of GNOME apps on YOUR desktop!

Article Desktop

Want to run the latest GNOME applications on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 and 17.10? Actually, not just Ubuntu, many other distributions such as Fedora, Linux Mint and Debian that support snap. We have now packaged a pretty extensive list of the latest GNOME apps as snaps and provided them in the Snap store. Any of these snaps

Ken VanDine
24 October 2017

David Callé
18 October 2017

Fresh Snaps from September 2017

Article Desktop

October, it’s almost time for a new Ubuntu release! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about spending relaxing time with your computer: playing games, listening to music and enjoying beautiful GNOME applications! If the term snaps doesn’t ring a bell, they are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing

David Callé
18 October 2017

Sarah Dickinson
11 October 2017

elementary on why snaps are right for their Linux distro

Article Desktop

elementary is the company behind the elementary OS Linux distribution and the associated app store. Celebrating their tenth anniversary this year, elementary began in 2007 with their first release in 2011. They are currently on their 4th release (Loki) and are working towards their 5th (Juno) with Jupiter, Luna and...

Sarah Dickinson
11 October 2017

Canonical
5 October 2017

Security Team Update: October 5, 2017

Article Cloud and server

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 Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [email protected]...

Canonical
5 October 2017

Sarah Dickinson
4 October 2017

Heroku as a snap: talking security, Snapcraft & daily updates

Article Desktop

Created 10 years ago and now owned by Salesforce, Heroku is a hosted cloud platform as a service (PaaS) which makes it easy for developers to run apps and services at scale. Heroku’s focus is on the developer experience and productivity. With that in mind, we caught up with Jeff Dickey (CLI Engineer) at the

Sarah Dickinson
4 October 2017

Canonical
28 September 2017

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS selected for Samsung ARTIK Gateway modules

Article Internet of Things

Canonical today announced that it will bring its Ubuntu 16.04 operating system to the Samsung ARTIK™ internet of things ecosystem. The Samsung ARTIK platform is a fully integrated chip to cloud and production-ready Internet of Things solution, designed to help companies accelerate their product development process,...

Canonical
28 September 2017

luciadecastro
12 September 2017

Wavebox snap: A central hub for Gmail, Outlook, Trello, Slack and more

Article Desktop

Wavebox is an app that brings together most of the tools you’ll need on an everyday basis, like Gmail, Outlook, Office 365, Slack and more, and is now available as a snap! We had a chat with Thomas Beverley, Co-founder & Software Engineer at Wavebox, to understand how was their experience with snapping their application.

luciadecastro
12 September 2017

David Callé
11 September 2017

Fresh Snaps from August 2017

Article Desktop

September, back to school! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about productivity and collaboration tools. Very competent web browser? Check. Messaging clients? Check. PDF and Video files editing? Check. Hacking your router to host apps and Minepocket server management? Well, September also has weekends – check!...

David Callé
11 September 2017

Thibaut Rouffineau
10 August 2017

Fresh Snaps from July 2017

Article Cloud and server

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, JSON configuration, blockchain wallet and Openstack… Ready for an active summer? If the term “snaps” doesn’t ring a bell, they are a new way for developers to package

Thibaut Rouffineau
10 August 2017

Dustin Kirkland
21 July 2017

Dustin Kirkland: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey

Article Desktop

Back in March, we asked the HackerNews community, “What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?”: https://ubu.one/AskHNA passionate discussion ensued, the results of which are distilled into this post: http://ubu.one/thankHNIn fact, you can check that link, http://ubu.one/thankHN and see our progress so far this cycle. We...

Dustin Kirkland
21 July 2017

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