Blog posts tagged
"Snaps"

191 posts

Igor Ljubuncic
16 December 2022

Snapcrafters: 2022 wrap-up

Article Community

This article was written by Merlijn Sebrechts and Dani Llewellyn from the Snapcrafters community. ===== Last year, we officially re-launched the “Snapcrafters” initiative. We’re a community of volunteers who build and maintain unofficial snap packages. Although snaps make it easy for developers to publish their software...

Igor Ljubuncic
16 December 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
15 November 2022

Hold your horses, I mean snaps! New feature lets you stop snap updates, for as long as you need

Article Desktop

One of the core aspects of the snap ecosystem is the built-in, robust auto-update mechanism. Whenever there is a snap update available in the Snap Store, the snapd service will apply it, keeping your software patched and up to date. Most of the time, this works great. In some scenarios, though, this may not be

Igor Ljubuncic
15 November 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

Vergil Yotov
23 September 2022

IoT Project Lifecycle: Efficient prototyping with Snaps and Ubuntu Core [Part I]

Article Internet of Things

There is nothing more exciting than creating something new. Whether developing a new idea, coding a new software feature or creating a new product altogether. After a lot of hard work, we can finally see users interacting with the system and sharing their feedback. The quickest way to reach that point in a project is

Vergil Yotov
23 September 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

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

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
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

Igor Ljubuncic
17 December 2021

Snapcrafters – One for all, all for one

Article Ubuntu

In mid-2017, a small group of techies banded together and formed a team that would specialize in creating community-supported snaps of applications for which there was or would be no upstream support. This team called itself: Snapcrafters. Over time, it slowly, gradually grew, attracting more people and bringing yet...

Igor Ljubuncic
17 December 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
3 December 2021

Ubuntu Frame – A picture is worth a thousand snaps

Article Internet of Things

The development of graphical applications intended for use on IoT devices isn’t trivial. The complexity goes beyond the usual challenges that exist in the classic desktop and server domains. One, the IoT world is much less mature. Two, developers need to take into consideration various edge cases that do not apply to...

Igor Ljubuncic
3 December 2021

Holly Hall
19 November 2021

Top 10 apps to boost your productivity

Article Apps

Winter is rolling in (for those in the Northern Hemisphere at least). Long summer evenings are on hold for now. In these colder months, it can be difficult to get back into work and feel efficient. But whether you are feeling tired, unorganised, or demotivated, there may be an application here to help you refocus

Holly Hall
19 November 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
12 November 2021

Snapcraft offline mode – Build snaps while saving data

Article Ubuntu

As part of the snap creation cycle, the Snapcraft tool creates isolated build instances inside which all of the necessary work – download of sources, compilation, packaging, etc. – is done in a safe manner, without touching the host system. While there are many advantages to the use of the virtual machines (via Multipass) or

Igor Ljubuncic
12 November 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
8 October 2021

How to make snaps faster

Article Ubuntu

A great user experience is (or at least, should be) an integral part of any software that involves user interaction. On the desktop, this starts with the application launch, and continues through the session. The overall time to completion of tasks as well as interactive responsiveness are a core element in this...

Igor Ljubuncic
8 October 2021

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