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Igor Ljubuncic
15 April 2021

Should you ever reinstall your Linux box? If so, how?

Article Desktop

Broadly speaking, the Linux community can be divided into two camps – those who upgrade their operating systems in-vivo, whenever there is an option to do so in their distro of choice, and those who install from scratch. As it happens, the former group also tends to rarely reinstall their system when problems occur, while

Igor Ljubuncic
15 April 2021

Rhys Davies
8 April 2021

How to make your first snap

Article Desktop

Snaps are a way to package your software so it is easy to install on Linux. If you’re a snap developer already or you’re a part of the Linux community, and you care about how software is deployed, and you’re well versed in how software is packaged, and are tuned into the discussions around packaging

Rhys Davies
8 April 2021

Leia Ruffini
30 March 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 30th of March 2021

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.

Leia Ruffini
30 March 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
26 March 2021

What’s in a snap?

Article Desktop

Snaps are several things, all at once. They are confined, standalone Linux applications that bundle all their necessary dependencies, which means they do not need to rely on the underlying system, and can run independently of it. Snaps are also packaged as compressed Squashfs filesystems, using the .snap extension. For...

Igor Ljubuncic
26 March 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
23 March 2021

How does Ubuntu 16.04 entering Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) affect snap publishers?

Article Cloud and server

At the end of April, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will reach the end of its five years of mainstream support and enter the Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) phase. If you’re a snap developer, and you have built or based your snaps on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) packages and libraries, you may want to know how this milestone

Igor Ljubuncic
23 March 2021

Rhys Davies
19 March 2021

Flutter and Ubuntu so far

Article Desktop

At Flutter Engage, Ken VanDine, engineering manager for the Ubuntu desktop,  made an appearance in the keynote speech to talk about Flutter on Ubuntu. Canonical has been working to support Flutter for some time now, bringing the SDK to Linux, committing to build a new Ubuntu installer, and now, making Flutter the...

Rhys Davies
19 March 2021

Andreea Munteanu
17 March 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 17th of March 2021

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.

Andreea Munteanu
17 March 2021

Andreea Munteanu
5 March 2021

Code the future together using Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

Where: CodeMotion 2021 – Italian edition When: March 23rd – 25th 2021 Location: virtual Italian space Get your ticket Described by the organisers as an event made by developers for developers, CodeMotion is an event that we love to attend. In November last year, we announced that Ubuntu wanted to code the future of Italy

Andreea Munteanu
5 March 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
4 March 2021

Honey, I Shrunk the Snap!

Article Desktop

The year is 1989. I bought a computer game called F-16: Combat Pilot, a flight simulator featuring free-flight, five types of single-player missions, a full campaign mode, serial-port multiplayer, and then some. Gloriously wrapped in four colors and magnetized on two single-density 5.25-inch floppy disks. Total size:...

Igor Ljubuncic
4 March 2021

Rhys Davies
26 February 2021

What is virtualisation? The basics

Article Desktop

Virtualisation plays a huge role in almost all of today’s fastest-growing software-based industries. It is the foundation for most cloud computing, the go-to methodology for cross-platform development, and has made its way all the way to ‘the edge’; the eponymous IoT. This article is the first in a series where we...

Rhys Davies
26 February 2021

Robin Winslow
18 February 2021

Regex basics

Design Design

An overview of regex and how to use it, from a few different angles. Including appropriate warnings like ‘avoid regex’.

Robin Winslow
18 February 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
11 February 2021

How to keep your Linux disk usage nice and tidy and save space

Article Desktop

Everyone loves a clean, tidy home (hopefully). This also includes your other home – slash home, the Linux home directory. Disk cleanup and management utilities are extremely popular in Windows, but not so much in Linux. This means that users who want to do a bit of housekeeping in their distro may not necessarily have

Igor Ljubuncic
11 February 2021

Alan Pope
8 February 2021

Getting started with Flutter on Ubuntu

Article Desktop

This is a guest post authored by Dani Llewellyn. It was originally featured on her blog, we’re reproducing it here with Dani’s permission. Dani is an active member of the WordPress, WSL, Ubuntu and Snapcraft communities. Thanks Dani! Recently there was an announcement from Ubuntu that the desktop team are working on a...

Alan Pope
8 February 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
28 January 2021

Want to publish a snap? Here’s a list of dos and don’ts

Article Desktop

Technology is a medium that enables us to achieve things in life, ideally in a pleasant way. In the software world, operating systems, programming languages and application frameworks are the tools of the trade. But you need the right tool for the right job. If you’re thinking about writing or porting your code to snaps,

Igor Ljubuncic
28 January 2021

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