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Igor Ljubuncic
27 June 2019

Development tips and tricks – snap try and snapcraft pack

Article Desktop

Over the past several months, we have shared with you several articles and tutorials showing how to accelerate application development so that a typically demanding, time-consuming process becomes an easier, faster and more fun one. Today, we’d like to introduce some additional tips and tricks. Namely, we want to talk...

Igor Ljubuncic
27 June 2019

Canonical
24 June 2019

Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS

Article Canonical announcements

Thanks to the huge amount of feedback this weekend from gamers, Ubuntu Studio, and the WINE community, we will change our plan and build selected 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS. We will put in place a community process to determine which 32-bit packages are needed to support legacy software, and can

Canonical
24 June 2019

wgs1
20 June 2019

Kubernetes on Mac: how to set up

Article Cloud and server

UPDATED in July 2020 with the latest instruction set. Are you looking for a Kubernetes solution to run on your Mac? MicroK8s is a lightweight, pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes developed by Canonical. It’s a compact Linux snap that installs a single-node Kubernetes cluster alongside carefully selected add-ons on...

wgs1
20 June 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
20 June 2019

Parallel installs – test and run multiple instances of snaps

Article Desktop

In Linux, testing software is both easy and difficult at the same time. While the repository channels offer great availability to software, you can typically only install a single instance of an application. If you want to test multiple instances, you will most likely need to configure the remainder yourself. With...

Igor Ljubuncic
20 June 2019

Anthony Dillon
10 June 2019

Design and Web team summary – 10 June 2019

Article Cloud and server

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. Integrating the blog into www.ubuntu.com We have been working on integrating the blog

Anthony Dillon
10 June 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
6 June 2019

Snapcraft confinement & interfaces

Article Desktop

Snaps. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the OSS Snapcraft. Its continuing mission, to provide snap users with simple, clear and effective tips and tricks on how to build and publish their applications. In this tutorial, we are going to talk about confinement and interfaces – how to restrict what your snaps can

Igor Ljubuncic
6 June 2019

Alex Hung
4 June 2019

Debug ACPI Tables with Firmware Test Suite (FWTS)

Article Cloud and server

In my previous two articles, ACPI AML Debugger in Ubuntu 18.04 & Debug AML (DSD & SSDT) with ACPICA Utilities, I discussed techniques for AML debugging; however the ACPI specification includes many other important tables. Firmware Test Suite (FWTS) is a test suite (as the name indicates) that can play a big role in debugging

Alex Hung
4 June 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
23 May 2019

Snapcraft parts & plugins

Article Desktop

Last week, we published Introduction to snapcraft, a tutorial that provided a detailed overview of the snap build process. We touched on the concepts like snap ecosystem components, snapcraft command line, snapcraft.yaml syntax, and more. We’d like to expand on the first lesson, and today, we are going to talk about...

Igor Ljubuncic
23 May 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
16 May 2019

Introduction to snapcraft

Article Desktop

First steps are always hard, especially in technology. Most of the time, you need a primer, just the right dose of knowledge, to get started with a platform. This tutorial and upcoming sequels are designed to provide developers with simple, clear and effective tips and tricks on how to build and publish their applications as

Igor Ljubuncic
16 May 2019

Martin Wimpress
10 May 2019

Fresh snaps for April 2019

Article Desktop

April was another exciting month for the Snapcraft team with Microsoft releasing Visual Studio Code as a snap. As usual, we had hundreds of other new apps come to the snap store and here are a few of our favourites. MiniZinc is a free and open-source constraint modeling language. Model constraint satisfaction and...

Martin Wimpress
10 May 2019

Sarah Dickinson
8 May 2019

Shared values of Travis CI and snaps enhance integration confidence for developers

Article Desktop

Travis CI is a hosted, distributed continuous integration (CI) service used to build and test software projects hosted on GitHub, and free for anyone working on open source projects. Often regarded as the home of open source testing, Travis CI enables developers to automate their build without the need to set up their...

Sarah Dickinson
8 May 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
2 May 2019

Switch life mode to FUN with some cool Linux games

Article Desktop

If you think of the Internet as a big flat disk balancing precariously on the shoulders of titans, one of those titans happens to be gaming. People use their computing devices for a range of tasks, but playing games, solo or online, with friends or against friends, is a universal activity that crosses countries, cultures,

Igor Ljubuncic
2 May 2019

Sarah Dickinson
26 April 2019

An introduction to AppArmor

Article Cloud and server

Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated, attack frequency is on the rise, and the cost of cybercrime damage is projected to reach $6 trillion annually by 2021. Traditional defensive measures such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems that operate at the network perimeter are no longer enough to protect...

Sarah Dickinson
26 April 2019

Katie Elston
24 April 2019

Visit Canonical at Dell Technologies World

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Dell are working together to transform your business from the desktop to cloud to edge. Visit us at Dell Technologies World 2019 from Monday, 29 April to Wednesday, 1 May in booth #495 to talk with our experts about how you can innovate faster with Canonical and Dell, based on predictability, savings and

Katie Elston
24 April 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.