Blog posts tagged
"snapcraft.io"

279 posts

Oliver Smith
21 October 2022

What? The Steam snap is evolving!

Article Desktop

The Steam snap has evolved a lot over the last six months. Join us for a tour of the current state of play and help inform our plans for the future.

Oliver Smith
21 October 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
14 October 2022

The long ARM of KDE

Article Desktop

With over 100 applications available in the Snap Store, KDE is by far the biggest publisher of snaps around. What unifies this impressive portfolio is the fact that all of these snaps are made for the x86 platform. Not anymore. Now, don’t panic! The x86 snaps are not going anywhere. But ARM-supported KDE snaps are

Igor Ljubuncic
14 October 2022

Oliver Smith
8 July 2022

Firefox snap performance Part 3: significant startup improvements

Article Desktop

In Part 3 of our Firefox snap performance series we cover two significant performance improvements that have just landed for all users.

Oliver Smith
8 July 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
5 July 2022

Behind open DORS – Conference organizers share their thoughts on Canonical, Ubuntu, snaps, and open-source

Article Ubuntu

A Linux conference almost as old as Linux itself. In mid-May, DORS/CLUC hosted its 29th event at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia. With a long history of participation and contribution to open source communities, Canonical was one of the sponsors at the conference, with a busy...

Igor Ljubuncic
5 July 2022

Holly Hall
30 June 2022

Star Developers are here!

Article Ubuntu

We are happy to announce that the newest community feature of the Snap Store is here: Star Developers! Background  In the Snap Store, we have a fantastic community where members can discuss topics in the forum, develop snaps and help others. Currently, the Snap Store has verified accounts; verified companies have a...

Holly Hall
30 June 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
24 June 2022

The new classic confinement in snaps – Even the classics need a change

Article Ubuntu

As part of their fundamental, security-driven design, snaps are meant to run isolated from the underlying system. In most cases, the idea works well, and granular access to system resources using the mechanism of interfaces allows snap developers to ship their applications packaged with strict confinement. However,...

Igor Ljubuncic
24 June 2022

Oliver Smith
16 June 2022

How are we improving Firefox Snap performance? Part 2

Article Desktop

Improving Firefox snap performance is one of our top priorities. In part 2 of this series, we give an update on our progress and latest fixes.

Oliver Smith
16 June 2022

Vergil Yotov
15 June 2022

Master IoT software updates with validation sets on Ubuntu Core 22

Article Ubuntu

If you are packaging your IoT applications as snaps or containers, you are aware of the benefits of bundling an application with its dependencies. Publishing snaps across different operating system versions and even distributions is much easier than maintaining package dependencies. Automated IoT software updates make...

Vergil Yotov
15 June 2022

Oliver Smith
26 May 2022

How are we improving Firefox snap performance? Part 1

Article Desktop

Improving Firefox snap performance is one of our top priorities. Learn more about our recent changes, ongoing investigations and how to run your own benchmarks.

Oliver Smith
26 May 2022

Oliver Smith
18 May 2022

Bring your multi-platform apps to Linux desktop with Flutter 3

Article Desktop

Flutter 3 features production-ready Linux desktop support for the first time as part of Canonical’s ongoing partnership with the Flutter team.

Oliver Smith
18 May 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
17 May 2022

Snapping PhotoNoteBook: Lessons from the kitchen table, or: How an Android app got converted to a Linux snap

Article Ubuntu

This article was written by Alan Watson, with only small cosmetic changes from me. Having stumbled upon PhotoNoteBook, I asked Alan to write a guest blog post and share his project with the wider snap developer community. ===== The idea for PhotoNoteBook was seeded in 2018 after watching a Double-Glazing salesman...

Igor Ljubuncic
17 May 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
6 May 2022

Linux Application Summit 2022 – And there we were all in one place …

Article Ubuntu

In the last two days of April, the small, picturesque town of Rovereto in northern Italy was the location of this year’s Linux Application Summit (LAS). After a virtual-only experience during the pandemic, the LAS returned with a physical presence, and so did we. Canonical has long recognized the value and importance of LAS as

Igor Ljubuncic
6 May 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
14 April 2022

Private shared memory support for snaps

Article Ubuntu

At first glance, the title of this article may sound like an oxymoron. However, what it highlights is the introduction of a rather useful feature that will enable a far more robust and elegant handling of the /dev/shm implementation inside the snap sandbox. This will make snap development easier, more secure, and reduce...

Igor Ljubuncic
14 April 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
17 March 2022

KDE snaps performance revving up

Article Ubuntu

Speed, or rather, responsiveness is an essential part of the software usage experience. This applies to every technology and domain, snaps included. Indeed, when it comes to snaps, the equation is a bit more complicated and slightly less straightforward because snaps are packaged as compressed, standalone applications...

Igor Ljubuncic
17 March 2022

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