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Snapcraft through the eyes of its biggest community contributor
by Sarah Dickinson on 16 February 2018
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...
Desktop
Skype discuss easing Linux maintenance with snaps
by Sarah Dickinson on 13 February 2018
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...
Desktop
Snapcraft Summit summary – day 1
by Alan Pope on 1 February 2018
The first day of the Snapcraft Summit in Seattle kicked off with a simple round of introductions and each participant voicing their plans for the week. People...
Desktop
Plex joins Snapcraft Summit to advance snap learnings
by Sarah Dickinson on 31 January 2018
Plex is the leading streaming platform for personal media collections, also offering over-the-air Live TV and DVR capabilities, and curated news from over 200...
Canonical announcements
Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem
by Canonical on 18 January 2018
The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the...
Canonical announcements
Canonical welcome Spotify as a snap for Linux users
by Canonical on 20 December 2017
Universal Linux app packaging format enables Linux users to install the popular music streaming service with a simple click and install London, UK – December...
Desktop
JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives
by Sarah Dickinson on 19 December 2017
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...
Cloud and server
UbuCon Europe: 27th, 28th, 29th of April 2018 in Gijón/Xixón, Spain
by Canonical on 14 December 2017
The next Ubucon Europe will take place at the Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos in Gijón/Xixón (Asturias, Spain), the 27th, 28th & 29th of April 2018. The Antiguo...
Desktop
Desktop
Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring
by Sarah Dickinson on 5 December 2017
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,...
Desktop
Announcing snapcraft 2.35
by Sergio Schvezov on 22 November 2017
The snapcraft team is pleased to announce that version 2.35 has been released. Contributions This release saw some excellent contributions from outside the...
Internet of Things
Introducing the UP² Grove IoT development kit with Ubuntu
by Canonical on 20 November 2017
As computing at the edge grows, so does the need to connect a flurry of IoT devices directly into a device that can do advanced analytics and processing. The...