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Alan Pope
13 December 2019

Building a Rust snap by Example

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There’s plenty of official documentation which details how to create snaps. We live in the copy/paste generation though. So lets walk through a real-world example you can use as a template, or selectively yoink sections from. This is the first in a series of posts which break down how to build snaps based on published

Alan Pope
13 December 2019

haydenb
9 December 2019

Canonical sponsors WSLConf at Microsoft HQ

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is announcing today it will be a featured sponsor of WSLConf, the first conference dedicated to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) platform. WSLConf is scheduled for March 10th-11th, 2020 and is being held on the campus of Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The conference brings together...

haydenb
9 December 2019

Rhys Davies
9 December 2019

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS feature planning and priority survey

Article Cloud and server

This 10-15 minute survey will shape Canonical’s work on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and beyond. Tell us what’s important for you! We care equally about personal, community, research and commercial projects. Whether you are an enterprise IT director, or a scientist, or a hobbyist, we want to honour the contributions of thousands of...

Rhys Davies
9 December 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
5 December 2019

Snapcraft now auto-detects missing dependencies

Article Desktop

When you build snaps, the process of composing a complete snapcraft.yaml file will usually revolve around three main activities: parts, build requirements and runtime components. Sometimes, you may discover that you’re missing certain libraries in the compilation stage, or that they are required for your application to...

Igor Ljubuncic
5 December 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
28 November 2019

Productivity corner: free, versatile office suites in the Snap Store

Article Desktop

For the past few decades, the digital office formula has not changed much. It still revolves around three main components – text documents, data spreadsheets and visual slide decks, designed to convey a powerful business message. While simple in essence, this model is quite complex in practice, and choosing the best...

Igor Ljubuncic
28 November 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
21 November 2019

Snapcraft secret sauce: KDE neon extension

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Simplicity is the magic ingredient in any product design. For members of the KDE community, snap development has become that much simpler, thanks to the recent introduction of the KDE neon extension. Last year, we talked about the KDE build and content snaps, which can greatly speed the build of KDE application snaps and save

Igor Ljubuncic
21 November 2019

Alan Pope
12 November 2019

Growing the Linux app Ecosystem at LAS 2019

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The third Linux Application Summit (LAS) kicks off this week in Barcelona, Spain. Formerly organised under the GNOME project, known as Libre Application Summit, the new LAS is a joint effort between the KDE and GNOME projects. The aim of the conference is to encourage the growth of a vibrant Linux application ecosystem....

Alan Pope
12 November 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
24 October 2019

Bauh is a nifty snap manager

Article Desktop

If you’re looking for an easy, non-techie way to install snaps, you want a simple store-like utility. Snap integration is available in both GNOME Software and KDE Discover, which cover a large portion of the Linux user base. However, in distributions and desktop environments that do not natively provide a snap-capable...

Igor Ljubuncic
24 October 2019

Canonical
17 October 2019

Ubuntu 19.10 delivers Kubernetes at the edge, multi-cloud infrastructure economics and an integrated AI/ML developer experience

Article AI

17th October 2019: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 19.10 with a focus on accelerating developer productivity in AI/ML, new edge capabilities for MicroK8s and delivering the fastest GNOME desktop performance. “In the fifteen years since the first Ubuntu release, we have seen Ubuntu evolve from the...

Canonical
17 October 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
17 October 2019

Snaptastic – elementary OS snap manager

Article Desktop

An interesting aspect in the life of any technology is how it propagates. Like organisms in nature, technology follows evolutionary patterns, and sometimes, it can be difficult predicting them. But their observation can be quite telling. Case in point, Snaptastic on elementary OS. Snaptastic is a graphical snap manager...

Igor Ljubuncic
17 October 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
4 October 2019

The smart dump plugin

Article Desktop

As you probably already know, snapcraft supports a range of plugins, designed to aid developers in making their snaps in an easier, faster, more transparent fashion. Plugins work with different programming languages and build tools, like Python, Java, Rust, Cmake, and others. By making complex things simpler, they can...

Igor Ljubuncic
4 October 2019

Alan Pope
26 September 2019

Easy Linux Game Streaming with OBS

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For many, watching other people play games has long taken over from TV as the favoured source of entertainment content. As a creator, whether you stream via YouTube, Twitch.tv or Mixer, Open Broadcast Software (OBS) Studio is the swiss-army knife to do it. The OBS snap makes this a breeze, whichever Linux distro you’re playing

Alan Pope
26 September 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
19 September 2019

Popular snaps per distro

Article Desktop

From a distance, Linux is one big, confusing ball of passionate users and hardcore technical jargon. But as you zoom in, you can start seeing patterns – and differences. Indeed, the individual and vastly varied choice of a favorite distribution has played a major part in shaping the community conversation in the Linux...

Igor Ljubuncic
19 September 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
29 August 2019

A technical comparison between snaps and debs

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How are snaps different from debs? This is a common question that comes up in technical discussions in the Linux community, especially among developers and users who have just embarked on their snap journey and are interested in learning more details. Indeed, the introduction of self-contained application format likes...

Igor Ljubuncic
29 August 2019

All you need to know about the fast, free, and user friendly Ubuntu desktop operating system.

All you need to know about the fast, free, and user friendly
Ubuntu desktop operating system.