Blog posts tagged
"snapcraft.io"

279 posts

Igor Ljubuncic
3 January 2019

Kata Containers – A form of art

Article Cloud and server

November was a productive month for us. As you’ve already glimpsed in the KDE snaps article, we hosted a Snapcraft Summit in our London offices, during which we worked with engineers from major companies on building snaps. Hailing from Intel, Julio Montes joined us to improve the Kata Containers snap, to make it easier for

Igor Ljubuncic
3 January 2019

Alan Pope
27 December 2018

Top Snaps in 2018

Desktop Desktop

With 2018 drawing to a close, and many of us spending with family during the holiday season, I thought we’d take a look back over some of our favourite Linux applications in the Snap Store. Some have been in the store for over a year, and a few landed only recently, but they’re all great.

Alan Pope
27 December 2018

Igor Ljubuncic
27 December 2018

I have a need, a need for snap

Desktop Desktop

Are snaps slow? Or slower than their classic counterparts (DEB or RPM, for instance)? This is a topic that comes up often in online discussions, related to various containerised application formats, including snaps. We thought this would be a good idea to run a detailed experiment to see what kind of numbers we get when

Igor Ljubuncic
27 December 2018

Alan Pope
20 December 2018

Ubuntu Core Smart Speaker

Article Desktop

With the holidays coming up, many of us can expect to spend time with our friends and families, often listening to seasonal music, or indeed escaping the seasonal music! Whether you’re joining in or getting away from the crowd, this simple project can help. This is part one of a series of posts where I

Alan Pope
20 December 2018

Igor Ljubuncic
15 December 2018

KDE apps at the snap of your fingers

Article Desktop

Are you a Plasma fan? And you want to develop KDE applications? This has just become easier and more fun than ever before. In early November, we hosted a Snapcraft Summit in our London offices, a forward-thinking software workshop attended by major software vendors and Snapcraft engineers working at every level of the...

Igor Ljubuncic
15 December 2018

Alan Pope
12 December 2018

Secure VPN Connection with Ubuntu Core

Desktop Desktop

As part of a personal drive to be less dependent on 3rd party Internet services, I’ve moved some things in house, under my own control. This includes self-hosting important shared files, photos and media at home. Which can pose a problem if I’m away from home and want to access those files. Previously, I would

Alan Pope
12 December 2018

Alan Pope
7 December 2018

Fresh Snaps from November 2018

Article Desktop

Another month passes and we’ve got a collection of applications which crossed our “desk” (Twitter feed) towards the end of 2018. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. 1. MiniZinc MiniZinc MiniZinc is an open-source, high-level solver constraint modeling language Get MiniZinc from the Snap store or...

Alan Pope
7 December 2018

Canonical
6 December 2018

Canonical launches MicroK8s – deploy Kubernetes in seconds

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical has released MicroK8s – a fast and efficient upstream Kubernetes delivered as a single snap package that installs on 42 flavours of Linux. With a small disk and memory footprint, MicroK8s provides an efficient way to deploy Kubernetes in seconds, whether on the desktop, the server, an edge cloud, or IoT...

Canonical
6 December 2018

Sarah Dickinson
29 November 2018

GitKraken picks up community demand to adopt snaps

Article Desktop

Used by the likes of Netflix, Tesla and Apple, GitKraken is the go-to home for developers who are looking for a more user-friendly interface for Git with integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and VSTS (Azure DevOps). Established a couple of years ago, GitKraken offers a Git Client for Windows, Mac and Linux, and...

Sarah Dickinson
29 November 2018

cprov
27 November 2018

The power of installed-base snap metrics

Article Cloud and server

The Snap Store is able to provide insightful information to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) about usage of their snap applications. Our goal is to help snap publishers interact better with their users and make the most of their relationship. The primary metric provided by the store is the active installed-base. We...

cprov
27 November 2018

Alan Griffiths
19 November 2018

egmde: a project that uses Mir

Development Desktop

Display servers solve a large and complex problem. Mir provides a broad and powerful library to solve those problems, but there is a learning curve to use Mir effectively. It is really helpful to have a step-by-step example that covers enough of the issues to get a decent start. To address this need there’s a

Alan Griffiths
19 November 2018

Canonical
18 October 2018

Infographic: Snaps in numbers

Article Cloud and server

Coinciding with the release of Ubuntu 18.10 today, we have celebrated the exceptional adoption of snaps by sharing the infographic below. From popular snaps to daily installs, this infographic demonstrates where, when and why users are installing and adopting the secure, Linux application format. For more commentary...

Canonical
18 October 2018

Canonical
16 October 2018

Canonical collaborates with Eurotech on edge computing solutions

Article Canonical announcements

Coinciding with IoT World Solutions Congress in Barcelona this week, Canonical is pleased to announce a dual-pronged technological partnership with Eurotech to help organisations advance their internet of things enablement. Eurotech is a long time leader in embedded computing hardware as well as providing software...

Canonical
16 October 2018

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

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