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Sarah Dickinson
15 October 2018

Self-containing dependencies leads LogMeIn to publish their first Snap

Article Cloud and server

LogMeIn is one of the world’s top 10 public SaaS companies, and a market leader in communication & conferencing, identity & access, and customer engagement & support solutions, making well-known products such as GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, LogMeIn Central, LastPass, and Bold360. The company is headquartered in Boston, US,...

Sarah Dickinson
15 October 2018

Canonical
12 October 2018

Firefox ESR 60 availability on Ubuntu

Article Desktop

Mozilla Release Engineering created a special customised packaging of the Ubuntu version of Firefox intended for our enterprise partners of Canonical. This is particularly useful if partners decide they need to apply policies to Firefox for an install base they administer. This Extended Support Release (ESR) is...

Canonical
12 October 2018

Canonical
11 October 2018

Plex arrives in Canonical’s Snap Store

Desktop Canonical announcements

The leading streaming media platform is now available to a wider Linux community Visit the Snap Store to see more information on Plex as a Snap and install it on your machine. London, UK: 11th October 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announces Plex as a Snap, bringing the over-the-top (OTT) media...

Canonical
11 October 2018

Martin Wimpress
11 October 2018

Fresh Snaps from September 2018

Article Desktop

Another month passes, and we’ve got a collection of interesting applications that came to our attention (Twitter feed) during September 2018. We have a mix of developer tools, languages, password management, productivity tools and some fun too. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. 1. Bitwarden...

Martin Wimpress
11 October 2018

Anthony Dillon
8 October 2018

Design and Web team summary – 8 October 2018

Article Cloud and server

Snappy Whitelist/ Blacklist territories for your snaps We’ve recently implemented the ability to include or exclude your Snap in certain territories. This functionality has been ported to improve the publisher experience on snapcraft.io. Part of the work is an implementation of a multi-select picker with filtering...

Anthony Dillon
8 October 2018

Canonical
26 September 2018

Canonical’s Current Security Certifications

Article Cloud and server

Canonical has entered the security certifications space by achieving a few important security certifications for the first time on Ubuntu. Canonical has achieved FIPS 140-2 Level 1 certification for several cryptographic modules on Ubuntu 16.04. Canonical has also achieved Common Criteria EAL2 certification for Ubuntu...

Canonical
26 September 2018

Canonical
19 September 2018

Announcing Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – “Trusty Tahr”

Article Canonical announcements

Since the release of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, more than 450 million public cloud Ubuntu instances have launched, making Ubuntu the basis for the majority of cloud-based workloads. In fact, more than 60% of large-scale production clouds are running on Ubuntu operating systems (OS). This includes workloads and use cases across...

Canonical
19 September 2018

Will Cooke
17 September 2018

Optimised Ubuntu Desktop images available in Microsoft Hyper-V gallery

Desktop Desktop

Today we’re very pleased to announce that an optimised Ubuntu Desktop image is available from the Hyper-V gallery. This will give an optimum experience when running Ubuntu Desktop as a guest on a Windows 10 Pro desktop host. From the Ubuntu Report data we know that a lot of people are using Ubuntu as a

Will Cooke
17 September 2018

Alan Pope
13 September 2018

Fresh Snaps from August 2018

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Another month passes and we’ve got a collection of applications which crossed our “desk” (Twitter feed) during August 2018. We have a mix of social tools, music creation and curation software, password storage systems, developer tools and some fun too. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. 1....

Alan Pope
13 September 2018

Martin Wimpress
30 August 2018

Top 10 Linux applications for entertainment and leisure

Article Desktop

As the summer vacation season comes to a close in the northern hemisphere I reflect on 10 applications my family and I used during the summer to keep ourselves entertained. All of the following applications are available as Snaps that work on all major Linux distros once snapd is installed. The Snapcraft team share 3

Martin Wimpress
30 August 2018

Alan Pope
28 August 2018

Fresh Linux Applications On Demand

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Traditionally Linux users have relied on central distribution-maintained repositories to get new software. With six-month or longer spans between releases, this meant many users just put up with old versions of applications & libraries. In many cases newer software was just missing from the archives. Modern applications...

Alan Pope
28 August 2018

Canonical
14 August 2018

Ubuntu updates for L1 Terminal Fault vulnerabilities

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Today Intel announced a new side channel vulnerability known as L1 Terminal Fault. Raoul Strackx, Jo Van Bulck, Marina Minkin, Ofir Weisse, Daniel Genkin, Baris Kasikci, Frank Piessens, Mark Silberstein, Thomas F. Wenisch, Yuval Yarom, and researchers from Intel discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an...

Canonical
14 August 2018

Alan Pope
14 August 2018

Retro Style Games on Linux

Desktop Desktop

Gaming on Linux doesn’t have to mean buying a ludicrously priced GPU (thanks crypto miners!). Nor does it require a beefy CPU. There’s a real resurgence in retro style gaming going on right now. We’ve pulled together a selection of retro-inspired games for you to play today, on your beloved Linux machine. You can stay

Alan Pope
14 August 2018

Alan Pope
7 August 2018

Fresh Snaps from July 2018

Article Desktop

Another month, and another bumper crop of snaps for you! This time around we have a great mix of developer tools, productivity applications and of course games. All of these are available as snaps which can run on millions of Linux computers around the world. You can stay up to date with our editorial picks

Alan Pope
7 August 2018

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.