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Blog posts tagged
"Snaps"


Canonical
19 March 2018

Firefox Quantum snap now available on Linux-based devices

Canonical announcements News

London, UK, 19 March 2018: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Mozilla has launched a Firefox snap bringing their latest Quantum browser to multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. Developed by Canonical, snaps are a universal application packaging format for Linux, allowing them to work natively on hundreds ...


Guest
9 March 2018

An intro to ONLYOFFICE – now available as a snap

Desktop Article

This is a guest blog written by Kseniya Fedoruk of ONLYOFFICE. Two years ago ONLYOFFICE developers released a desktop office suite that combined viewers and editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Last week ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors was released as a snap – the universal Linux packaging format. This blog explains with ...


Sarah Dickinson
16 February 2018

Snapcraft through the eyes of its biggest community contributor

Desktop Article

If you’ve spent any time in the Snapcraft forum, it’s quite likely you’ve come across Dani Llewellyn – a keen community advocate or self-proclaimed Snapcrafter. Dani has always had a passion for computing and is completely self-taught. Outside of the community, Dani is a freelance WordPress developer. After getting into the open source wo ...


Sarah Dickinson
13 February 2018

Skype discuss easing Linux maintenance with snaps

Desktop Article

Skype is used by hundreds of millions of users globally to make free video and voice calls, send files, video and instant messages. It has been two years since Skype first launched to Linux users on the Electron framework. This brings us to the present day, where the team recently launched their first snap and ...


Sergio Schvezov
26 January 2018

A peek at the Snapcraft Summit

Desktop Article

The Snapcraft Summit, taking place in Seattle from January 29th to February 2nd, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon being attended by major software vendors and snap developers working to move the industry forward with software delivery. In the style introduced by the famous BarCamps of old, the agenda is totally free-form ...


Will Cooke
22 January 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018

Desktop News

Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks: GNOME We’ve been working on a patch for udisks to hide snaps from applications such as GNOME’s Disks.  This will hide all loop devices, including installed snaps, from disk management utilities making it less confusing and less cluttered.  We’ve reworked ...


David Callé
19 January 2018

Tutorial: Continuous delivery of snaps with Circle CI

Desktop Tutorials

Bullet-proof continuous delivery of software is crucial to the health of your community, more than a way to run manual tests, it also enables your early adopters to test code and give feedback on it as soon as it lands. You may be already using build.snapcraft.io to do so for snaps, but in some cases, ...


Canonical
18 January 2018

Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem

Canonical announcements News

The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the first iteration of Slack as a snap, bringing collaboration to open source users. Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate eff ...


David Callé
20 December 2017

Fresh Snaps from November 2017

Desktop Article

The past month has been exciting in the snap world, between getting ready to welcome our Google Code-in students, improving the developer dashboard and starting to land, piece by piece, the new store frontend, it’s time we take a small break to appreciate some new releases. Featuring IDEs for Go and PHP, production grade film ...


Sarah Dickinson
19 December 2017

JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives

Desktop Article

Used by companies as diverse as NASA, Pinterest, and CitiBank, JetBrains takes the repetition out of a developer’s life through their range of developer tools which automate routine checks and corrections. JetBrains offers 21 different tools for developers and in the last couple of months have created snaps for around half of their portfo ...


Sarah Dickinson
5 December 2017

Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring

Desktop Article

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 development. Mailspring has ...


Ellen Arnold
2 December 2017

Appstores: The Path To IoT Revenue Post-Sale

Internet of Things Webinar

As more enterprise embark on the path to IoT, they face 2 obstacles: monetization and security. A number of them will stay in an analysis paralysis mode, while their competitors and the rest of the market progress. What they’re really after is a secure path to growth that lets them experiment now without jeopardising their ...