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elopio
5 July 2017

User acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis CI

Article Desktop

Travis CI offers a great continuous integrationservice for the projects hosted in GitHub. With it you can run tests, deliverartifacts and deploy services on pull requests, when they are merged, or withsome other frecuency.Last week theyupdated the

elopio
5 July 2017

Iain Lane
3 July 2017

Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges

Article Desktop

I work at Canonical, on the desktop team. The team works on Ubuntu Desktop, publishing a release every six months containing the fruits of our efforts — or at least those ones that are ready enough for real people to use. For the next release (out in October), we were given a big task. Switch the desktop

Iain Lane
3 July 2017

Guest
28 June 2017

Build, test, and publish snap packages using snapcraft

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Ricardo Feliciano, Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected]. Snapcraft, the package management system fighting for its spot at the Linux table, re-imagines how you can deliver your software. A new set of cross-distro...

Guest
28 June 2017

Will Cooke
23 June 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 23, 2017

News Desktop

GNOME We’ve migrated ubuntu-session to a new unity-session package. This means that the default session is GNOME Shell and people can install Unity 7 and its related packages via unity-session. The migration is working well so far, but we still have some more work to do in order to make sure everything “just works”. LivePatch

Will Cooke
23 June 2017

Thibaut Rouffineau
19 June 2017

Distributing KeePassXC as a snap

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Jonathan White (find him on Github) one of the developers behind keepassxc. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] . Can you tell us about KeePassXC? KeePassXC, for KeePass Cross-Platform Community Edition, is an extension of the KeePassX password...

Thibaut Rouffineau
19 June 2017

Will Cooke
16 June 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 16, 2017

Article Desktop

GNOME Further theme fixes have been made in Artful to get GNOME Shell and Ambiance looking just right. Network Manager is updated to 1.8. It is currently awaiting the resolution of some test issues before it migrates to the release, but that should take place in the coming days. GNOME Terminal received a small fix

Will Cooke
16 June 2017

David Callé
15 June 2017

Gitter and Mattermost: two desktop apps for your future chat platform

Article Desktop

In the hunt for the perfect communication platform or protocol, a lot of companies are experimenting, which can lead to some confusion as not everyone is moving at the same pace: one team on IRC, another one on Slack, one on “anything but Slack, have you tried Mattermost? It’s almost like RocketChat”. Then, if a

David Callé
15 June 2017

Guest
14 June 2017

Project Sputnik: crazy idea to community driven developer systems

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Five years ago, I pitched a crazy idea to an internal innovation team at Dell: what if Dell took its highest end laptop, pre-loaded Ubuntu on it, included all the needed drivers and

Guest
14 June 2017

David Callé
13 June 2017

Vectr: a fresh take on vector graphics edition on Linux

Article Desktop

There is new desktop app available in the Snap store: Vectr. A free vector graphics editor for the Web and the Linux desktop Following the Inkscape snap, there is a new vector graphics editor readily available to install. With project sharing built-in, a modern UI built with Electron and more on the roadmap (real-time...

David Callé
13 June 2017

Ken VanDine
12 June 2017

Ubuntu Desktop – GNOME Extensions poll results

Article Desktop

Recently, with the help from our friends at OMG! Ubuntu, we ran a poll to collect data on usefulness of some GNOME Shell extensions. We limited the poll to a select group of extensions based on popularity on https://extensions.gnome.org as well as how they changed the user experience. The poll was done with Google forms,

Ken VanDine
12 June 2017

Will Cooke
9 June 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 9, 2017

Article Desktop

GNOME We’ve made the decision to switch to using GNOME Display Manager (GDM) instead of LightDM. We had planned to try LightDM, and based on our investigations it became apparent that we would need to invest a considerable amount of time making changes to get everything to work correctly, more time than we have. We

Will Cooke
9 June 2017

Canonical
8 June 2017

Kernel Team Summary- June 8, 2017

Article Cloud and server

Introduction This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Kernel Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the kernel team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-kernel channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu

Canonical
8 June 2017

Canonical
7 June 2017

Fresh Snaps from May 2017

Article Desktop

This month we have a selection that might please those of you who like games, with apps like OpenSpades and Pin Town. Our selection is really diverse, from graphics editor Vectr to AnimationMaker, there’s a snap for everyone. Using IRC? Now there’s a snap client for that too! And if the word snaps doesn’t ring

Canonical
7 June 2017

Canonical
6 June 2017

Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS!

Article Canonical announcements

We are pleased to announce that we have extended our Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service to users running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS! The Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service enables runtime correction of critical security vulnerabilities in the kernel without the need to reboot. It is the best way to ensure that machines are safe...

Canonical
6 June 2017

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.