Desktop archives
108 posts from 2017
Canonical welcome Spotify as a snap for Linux users
By Canonical, 20 December 2017
Universal Linux app packaging format enables Linux users to install the popular music streaming service with a simple click and install London, UK – December...
Fresh Snaps from November 2017
By David Callé, 20 December 2017
The past month has been exciting in the snap world, between getting ready to welcome our Google Code-in students, improving the developer dashboard and...
JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives
By Sarah Dickinson, 19 December 2017
Used by companies as diverse as NASA, Pinterest, and CitiBank, JetBrains takes the repetition out of a developer’s life through their range of developer tools...
Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update – December 15th 2017
By Will Cooke, 15 December 2017
Here’s the last newsletter for 2017, we’ll be back in the new year. On behalf of the whole Desktop Team I wish you all a happy holiday and a peaceful 2018....
cloud-init 17.2 Released
By Joshua Powers, 15 December 2017
As announced, cloud-init 17.2 was released this week. From the announcement, some highlights include: CLI added the clean and status subcommands Support for...
UbuCon Europe: 27th, 28th, 29th of April 2018 in Gijón/Xixón, Spain
By Canonical, 14 December 2017
The next Ubucon Europe will take place at the Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos in Gijón/Xixón (Asturias, Spain), the 27th, 28th & 29th of April 2018. The Antiguo...
Rocket.chat achieves simplicity through snaps
By Sarah Dickinson, 11 December 2017
Switching to snaps, Rocket.Chat has been able to get its product into the hands of users with as few steps as possible, switching a multi-stage set-up process...
Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring
By Sarah Dickinson, 5 December 2017
In the latest interview with a snap developer, we spoke to Ben Gotow who is the lead maintainer of Mailspring, a free, modern email client for Linux, Windows,...
Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: December 1, 2017
By Will Cooke, 1 December 2017
GNOME GNOME Disk Utility If you have snaps installed and open the Disks utility, your snaps appear as loop devices. We found this to be confusing and a bit...
Announcing snapcraft 2.35
By Sergio Schvezov, 22 November 2017
The snapcraft team is pleased to announce that version 2.35 has been released. Contributions This release saw some excellent contributions from outside the...
How to turn your website into a desktop app
By David Callé, 15 November 2017
Turning your website into a desktop integrated app is a relatively simple thing to do, but distributing it as such and making it noticeable in app stores is...
Dell Precision Machines Available With Ubuntu Pre-Installed
By Canonical, 14 November 2017
Looking for a new PC with Ubuntu pre-installed? We thought we’d run through the latest Dell Precision computers that come pre-installed with Ubuntu. These are...