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Canonical
6 March 2019

Infographic: Snapcraft for developers

Article Cloud and server

At the end of last year, we shared an infographic highlighting the adoption of snaps by users for their desktop, server or IoT devices. Those snaps wouldn’t be available without the growing number of developers building them behind the scenes. But why have developers, including those from some of the world’s largest...

Canonical
6 March 2019

Kyle Fazzari
28 February 2019

Building ROS 2 snaps with Colcon

Article Internet of Things

The snapcraft CLI has supported building ROS1 snaps for a while via the catkin plugin. We supported the ROS2 betas via the ament plugin, but that was before Open Robotics had a ROS2 package repository setup, which meant that the ament plugin built the ROS2 underlay from source, and it was predictably dreadfully slow. However,

Kyle Fazzari
28 February 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
28 February 2019

How to backup your application settings

Article Desktop

A reliable data backup plan should be an integral part of everyone’s software arsenal. If you accidentally delete your files, or something goes wrong in your setup, you will have your data safely stored in another location. This will allow you to recover quickly and resume working. Likewise, if you suffer a hardware failure or

Igor Ljubuncic
28 February 2019

Tony Espy
25 February 2019

EdgeX Foundry, the common framework for IoT edge computing, now available as a snap

Article Edgex

EdgeX Foundry is now available as a snap, making it available to millions of Linux users and developers via the ever-expanding Snap Store. EdgeX Foundry is a vendor-neutral open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation building a common open framework for IoT edge computing. EdgeX provides the ability to extract...

Tony Espy
25 February 2019

Sarah Dickinson
20 February 2019

How selecting the right Linux OS expedites IoT time to market

Article Internet of Things

With a proliferation of related hardware, software and solutions being rushed out to capture the promise of a multi-billion dollar IoT industry, vendors are under pressure to decrease their development time and speed up their time to market. Choices such as selecting the right infrastructure from the outset become even...

Sarah Dickinson
20 February 2019

Robert Ancell
19 February 2019

Easy IoT with Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi

Article Internet of Things

My current job involves me mostly working in the upper layers of the desktop software stack however I started out working in what was then called embedded engineering but now would probably be know as the Internet of Things (IoT). I worked on a number of projects which normally involved taking some industrial equipment (radio

Robert Ancell
19 February 2019

Alan Pope
14 February 2019

Bootstrap Your Snap

Development Desktop

People frequently tell me they’d like to make a snap of an application they care about. Whether it’s in person at events like FOSDEM, or online via IRC or Telegram, there are developers who want to share their Linux software creations with the world, and snaps are designed exactly for this. We have run a

Alan Pope
14 February 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
7 February 2019

Zero to Hero – Snap me up before you GO!

Desktop Desktop

Two weeks ago, my colleague Alan wrote an article on how one goes about packaging an application as a snap. The focus of that piece was a handful of tips and tricks that should make the transition from raw code to a working snap easier and more fun. Today, I’ll give you a slightly different

Igor Ljubuncic
7 February 2019

Martin Wimpress
5 February 2019

Fresh snaps from January 2019

Article Desktop

As we step into the new year we’ve got a collection of applications which crossed our “desk” (Twitter feed) during January 2019. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. 1. OpenToonz Snapcrafters World-famous Open Source 2D Animation suite, OpenToonz is available as a snap for Linux. Use scanned...

Martin Wimpress
5 February 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
31 January 2019

Where eagles snap – A closer look

Desktop Desktop

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about snap security, taking a journey through the eyes of a developer and handing over to a user who wants to install applications from the Snap Store. We discussed concepts like application confinement, interfaces, store review, and automatic updates. Today, we will look under the hood,...

Igor Ljubuncic
31 January 2019

Alan Pope
24 January 2019

Zero to Snap – Rev up your packaging

Article Desktop

Software developers often have enough to worry about. Their focus is creating the best application they can, often without having to consider packaging. We recently discovered Akira, which illustrates this well. The small team of developers are hard at work on the application, so software packaging isn’t a high priority...

Alan Pope
24 January 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
17 January 2019

Where eagles snap – snap security overview

Desktop Desktop

Quite often, security and functionality are two opposing forces. Vendors are trapped in a zero-sum game between providing their users as much freedom in the software they use and limiting said freedom to create tightly controlled and secure products. But this does not have be the case. For the last several years, Linux...

Igor Ljubuncic
17 January 2019

Martin Wimpress
14 January 2019

Fresh Snaps from December 2018

Article Desktop

Another month passes and we’ve got a collection of applications which crossed our “desk” (Twitter feed) during December 2018. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. 1. travis Travis CI Developers! Get the snap of the ubiquitous Travis CI command line client for Linux that works with any Travis CI setup

Martin Wimpress
14 January 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
10 January 2019

Snap up your development – Tools for making the snap trek easier

Desktop Desktop

Software development is what happens in between users and bug reports. Niccolo Machiavelli In an ideal world, developers would be able to create new applications without any errors, and live happily ever after. Unfortunately, errors, warnings and bugs are an inseparable part of the process. Sometimes, these problems are...

Igor Ljubuncic
10 January 2019

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