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Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu Desktop"


Alan Pope
3 July 2018

Fresh Snaps from June 2018

Desktop Article

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 ...


Will Cooke
20 June 2018

Report from the GNOME Software design sprint

Desktop Article

  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 ...


Sarah Dickinson
19 June 2018

Zenkit: The influence of developer communities in progressing snaps

Desktop Article

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 ...


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 ...


Guest
8 May 2018

An introduction to Zenkit – now available as a snap

Desktop Article

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 demand for desktop ...


Canonical
26 April 2018

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

Canonical announcements News

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 on every major publi ...


Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2018

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

Desktop Article

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, Ora launched their ...


Sarah Dickinson
29 March 2018

Growing ONLYOFFICE through snaps and the Snap Store

Desktop Article

  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 etc). You are also ab ...


Sarah Dickinson
26 March 2018

CircleCI evangelist looks to snaps to bridge cross-distro divide

Desktop Article

CircleCI helps developers test software and deploy it quickly but at a high standard. It is a key element of many developer’s DevOps toolsets. Ricardo Feliciano wears two hats – one as an avid community advocate (under the guise of FelicianoTech) and the other as Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. Ricardo joined the Snapcraft Summit in ...


Will Cooke
23 March 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 23rd March 2018

Desktop News

Bid “bonjour” to our Bionic Beaver!   Along with a sneak preview of our official Bionic mascot, it’s a short update this week as we’re all heads-down in bug fixing mode.  There are a couple of links to check out if you’re interested in what sort of data we want to collect about hardware and setup, ...


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 ...


Will Cooke
16 March 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 16th March 2018

Desktop News

We’ve had a busy few weeks, and so this email is a roll up of what’s been going on in Desktopland.  Last week we had a team sprint in Budapest where we got to work side by side with our teammates and colleagues across Canonical.  Feature Freeze has now passed and we’re working on fixing ...