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Will Cooke
15 December 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update – December 15th 2017

News Desktop

Here’s the last newsletter for 2017, we’ll be back in the new year. On behalf of the whole Desktop Team I wish you all a happy holiday and a peaceful 2018. GNOME Some important fixes landed in fonts-noto-emoji.  🍔  🍺 🧀 Work continues on removing as much gtk2 as we can. A fresh 18.04 install now only installs

Will Cooke
15 December 2017

Joshua Powers
15 December 2017

cloud-init 17.2 Released

Article Cloud and server

As announced, cloud-init 17.2 was released this week. From the announcement, some highlights include: CLI added the clean and status subcommands Support for identifying OVF datasource provided by VMware NoCloudKVM tests now run in continuous

Joshua Powers
15 December 2017

Canonical
14 December 2017

UbuCon Europe: 27th, 28th, 29th of April 2018 in Gijón/Xixón, Spain

Article Cloud and server

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 Instituto was built in 1797 as a centre for scientific and technical education. Currently, it is a public space maintained and managed by the City Council and it has

Canonical
14 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
11 December 2017

Rocket.chat achieves simplicity through snaps

Article Desktop

Switching to snaps, Rocket.Chat has been able to get its product into the hands of users with as few steps as possible, switching a multi-stage set-up process for a single command and instant installation.

Sarah Dickinson
11 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
5 December 2017

Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring

Article Desktop

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, and macOS. Originally started and open-sourced by Nylas in California, Ben took on the project earlier this year after Nylas changed course and stopped...

Sarah Dickinson
5 December 2017

Will Cooke
1 December 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: December 1, 2017

Article Desktop

GNOME GNOME Disk Utility If you have snaps installed and open the Disks utility, your snaps appear as loop devices. We found this to be confusing and a bit messy, so we have proposed a fix upstream and this should be merged soon. Theme The community theme topic has been very busy on the hub. Yesterday we

Will Cooke
1 December 2017

Sergio Schvezov
22 November 2017

Announcing snapcraft 2.35

Article Desktop

The snapcraft team is pleased to announce that version 2.35 has been released. Contributions This release saw some excellent contributions from outside the snapcraft core team, and we want to give a shout out to those folks. A team thank you to: Mark Lee Michael Vogt James Beedy Aleix Pol Jeff Dickey Nathan Haines Chris

Sergio Schvezov
22 November 2017

David Callé
15 November 2017

How to turn your website into a desktop app

Article Desktop

Turning your website into a desktop integrated app is a relatively simple thing to do, but distributing it as such and making it noticeable in app stores is another story. This tutorial will show you how to leverage Electron and snaps to create a desktop web app from scratch and release it on a multi-million

David Callé
15 November 2017

Canonical
14 November 2017

Dell Precision Machines Available With Ubuntu Pre-Installed

Article Desktop

Looking for a new PC with Ubuntu pre-installed? We thought we’d run through the latest Dell Precision computers that come pre-installed with Ubuntu. These are systems developed by and for developers, and are available in form factors ranging from sleek ultrabooks to powerful workstations. Here’s a quick runthrough of...

Canonical
14 November 2017

Will Cooke
10 November 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly, Nov 3rd & 10th: Bionic daily images available

Article Desktop

  The big news this week is the availability of Bionic daily ISOs. As always, we’re beavering away on the desktop: GNOME We’ve started a conversation on the GNOME mailing list to talk about locking down extensions which are part of a “mode” (a set of compulsory extensions and other settings). Ubuntu ships a mode

Will Cooke
10 November 2017

David Callé
7 November 2017

Fresh Snaps from October 2017

Article Desktop

Hot on the heels of the Ubuntu 17.10 release, the snap store has seen some great additions for musicians with MuseScore, for developers with IntelliJ IDEA, and many more! Let’s have a look at our october selection: 1. MuseScore MuseScore MuseScore is the world’s leading free and open-source software for writing music,...

David Callé
7 November 2017

Will Cooke
1 November 2017

Canonical joins GNOME Foundation Advisory Board

Article Desktop

As you’re no doubt aware, the default Ubuntu desktop is now running GNOME Shell following the 17.10 release and so we naturally have a great deal of interest in the plans and direction of the GNOME project.  The best way for us to get more involved in the future of GNOME is to become a

Will Cooke
1 November 2017

Canonical
31 October 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 beta 3 released!

Article Cloud and server

Hello MAASters!I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.3.0 Beta 3 has now been released and it is currently available in PPA and as a snap.PPA AvailabilityFor those running Ubuntu Xenial and would like to use beta 3, please use the following PPA:ppa:maas/nextSnap AvailabilityFor those running from the snap, or would like to...

Canonical
31 October 2017

Will Cooke
27 October 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: GNOME Fixes & New Snaps

Article Desktop

I’ll be starting the weekly round-up posts again now that the release is out and 18.04 is getting under way. At this early stage in the development cycle we’re spending a week or so tidying up the loose ends from 17.10, SRUing the important fixes that we’ve found, getting ready to sync new packages from

Will Cooke
27 October 2017

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