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"snapcraft"

Canonical
15 May 2018

Trust and security in the Snap Store

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Last Friday (11 May 2018) we learned that a snap was mining cryptocurrency in the background while the application was running. The practical implication of that is the overuse of local resources on a user’s system, well beyond what a typical application would use, consuming more energy than would be expected. The net effect is ...

Guest
8 May 2018

An introduction to Zenkit – now available as a snap

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

This is a guest blog written by Siobhan O’Rorke of Zenkit. In October 2016, Zenkit was released as an app designed to help you ‘organise anything’, enabling companies to digitise all of their business processes in a single app. It’s innovative approach to presenting data has since garnered worldwide attention, and high demand for desktop ...

Canonical
2 May 2018

Introducing developer notifications for snap security updates

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

For some time, we’ve wanted a mechanism to alert snap publishers to security updates which affect their snaps. All the pieces have come together and we are now sending alerts via email. Stated more precisely, publishers who use ‘stage-packages’ in their snapcraft.yaml will now be alerted when Ubuntu Security Notices (USNs) have been issue ...

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2018

Ora as a snap: ensuring users are benefiting from the latest version

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Ora is a user-friendly task management service with integrated time-tracking, reports, list view, git integrations and many other features. Often referred to by users as ‘the sweet spot between Trello and Jira’, Ora provides almost a complete match of Jira’s feature set but in a new and more accessible way. Last month, Ora launched their ...

Guest
5 April 2018

The Nextcloud Box: a review of building an IoT device with snaps

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

In 2016, Canonical, Nextcloud and WDLabs introduced the Nextcloud Box, the first IoT style device running with snaps out of the box. Besides sales of nearly 2K boxes before Western Digital shut down their research division WDLabs late last year, the snap been extremely popular with some days hitting over 10,000 downloads. Its installed ba ...

Sarah Dickinson
29 March 2018

Growing ONLYOFFICE through snaps and the Snap Store

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

  ONLYOFFICE is a project developed by IT experts from the Latvian company Ascensio System SIA. WIth ONLYOFFICE business solutions, which are the primary product range, you can run a fast and secure cloud office that comprises powerful online document editors and multiple business tools (CRM, project management, mail etc). You are also ab ...

Sarah Dickinson
26 March 2018

CircleCI evangelist looks to snaps to bridge cross-distro divide

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

CircleCI helps developers test software and deploy it quickly but at a high standard. It is a key element of many developer’s DevOps toolsets. Ricardo Feliciano wears two hats – one as an avid community advocate (under the guise of FelicianoTech) and the other as Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. Ricardo joined the Snapcraft Summit in ...

Canonical
19 March 2018

Firefox Quantum snap now available on Linux-based devices

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

London, UK, 19 March 2018: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Mozilla has launched a Firefox snap bringing their latest Quantum browser to multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. Developed by Canonical, snaps are a universal application packaging format for Linux, allowing them to work natively on hundreds ...

Guest
9 March 2018

An intro to ONLYOFFICE – now available as a snap

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

This is a guest blog written by Kseniya Fedoruk of ONLYOFFICE. Two years ago ONLYOFFICE developers released a desktop office suite that combined viewers and editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Last week ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors was released as a snap – the universal Linux packaging format. This blog explains with ...

Canonical
7 March 2018

Popular programming language, Kotlin, launches as a snap for Linux

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

We are delighted to announce that the latest addition to the snap ecosystem, launching today, is Kotlin – the pragmatic programming language for JVM, Android and browser crafted by JetBrains. Being a general-purpose language, Kotlin works everywhere where Java works from server-side applications, mobile applications (Android) and desktop ...

Sarah Dickinson
16 February 2018

Snapcraft through the eyes of its biggest community contributor

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

If you’ve spent any time in the Snapcraft forum, it’s quite likely you’ve come across Dani Llewellyn – a keen community advocate or self-proclaimed Snapcrafter. Dani has always had a passion for computing and is completely self-taught. Outside of the community, Dani is a freelance WordPress developer. After getting into the open source wo ...

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