Martin Wimpress

Martin Wimpress

13 posts

Developer Advocate

Passionate open source advocate, Linux enthusiast and Podcaster. Lives in England with his wife and daughter. Works at Canonical making Ubuntu & Snapcraft.

Martin Wimpress
24 April 2020

What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?

Article Desktop

Well, here it is! Ubuntu is the world’s most popular open-source desktop operating system, and we think this is our best release to date. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is an enterprise-grade, secure, cost-effective operating system for organisations and home users. Before I summarise the changes in this release, let’s address...

Martin Wimpress
24 April 2020

Martin Wimpress
14 January 2020

New Ubuntu Theme in Development for 20.04

Article Design

Yaru is the user interface theme that has been used in Ubuntu since 18.10. The theme is what determines the colours, borders, shadows, size, and shape of individual elements on the screen. Last week, the Yaru team visited London to plan the future of Yaru with members of Canonical’s Design and Ubuntu Desktop teams. I’d

Martin Wimpress
14 January 2020

Martin Wimpress
10 May 2019

Fresh snaps for April 2019

Article Desktop

April was another exciting month for the Snapcraft team with Microsoft releasing Visual Studio Code as a snap. As usual, we had hundreds of other new apps come to the snap store and here are a few of our favourites. MiniZinc is a free and open-source constraint modeling language. Model constraint satisfaction and...

Martin Wimpress
10 May 2019

Martin Wimpress
22 March 2019

Snapcraft Summit Montreal

Article Cloud and server

Following previous events in New York, Seattle, and London, the fourth Snapcraft Summit is taking place in Montreal, Canada from June 11th to 13th 2019. We have partnered with Travis CI this time and also expanded the scope of the event to three tracks. Snapcraft Summit Snapcraft is the universal app store for Linux that

Martin Wimpress
22 March 2019

Martin Wimpress
9 March 2019

Fresh KDE snaps for February 2019

Article Desktop

During February 2019 we celebrated another fine Plasma release with our friends at KDE by showcasing a month of KDE snaps on the Snapcraft Twitter and other social accounts. The KDE developers have done amazing work to create an SDK that simplifies making snaps of KDE applications and they also publish a common KDE framework

Martin Wimpress
9 March 2019

Martin Wimpress
5 February 2019

Fresh snaps from January 2019

Article Desktop

As we step into the new year we’ve got a collection of applications which crossed our “desk” (Twitter feed) during January 2019. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. 1. OpenToonz Snapcrafters World-famous Open Source 2D Animation suite, OpenToonz is available as a snap for Linux. Use scanned...

Martin Wimpress
5 February 2019

Martin Wimpress
14 January 2019

Fresh Snaps from December 2018

Article Desktop

Another month passes and we’ve got a collection of applications which crossed our “desk” (Twitter feed) during December 2018. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. 1. travis Travis CI Developers! Get the snap of the ubiquitous Travis CI command line client for Linux that works with any Travis CI setup

Martin Wimpress
14 January 2019

Martin Wimpress
11 October 2018

Fresh Snaps from September 2018

Article Desktop

Another month passes, and we’ve got a collection of interesting applications that came to our attention (Twitter feed) during September 2018. We have a mix of developer tools, languages, password management, productivity tools and some fun too. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. 1. Bitwarden...

Martin Wimpress
11 October 2018

Martin Wimpress
30 August 2018

Top 10 Linux applications for entertainment and leisure

Article Desktop

As the summer vacation season comes to a close in the northern hemisphere I reflect on 10 applications my family and I used during the summer to keep ourselves entertained. All of the following applications are available as Snaps that work on all major Linux distros once snapd is installed. The Snapcraft team share 3

Martin Wimpress
30 August 2018

Martin Wimpress
31 July 2018

Create your Linux development workstation in seconds

Article Desktop

Linux is the best platform for developers. Here’s how you can get popular languages and development environments up and running in moments. The first step is to install snapd (the service that runs and manages Snaps) on your distro, then you can install your pick from some of our recommendations below. We regularly share new

Martin Wimpress
31 July 2018

Martin Wimpress
17 July 2018

Get productive on the Linux desktop with 7 essential apps

Article Desktop

The Linux desktop is not just for people who like to mess with computers. With a wide range of enterprise class productivity and collaboration tools Linux users can enjoy computing parity with their peers and colleagues running other popular desktop computing platforms. Here are 7 apps that will boost your productivity...

Martin Wimpress
17 July 2018

Martin Wimpress
10 July 2018

6 IDEs you need to know about

Article Desktop

Linux has long been a favourite platform with developers due to the rich array of languages and toolchains available. In this article we highlight 6 IDEs that can boost your productivity. Each IDE is just a Snap away so you can easily craft your complete development workstation in seconds. Here are six of the best

Martin Wimpress
10 July 2018

Martin Wimpress
5 July 2018

Make your snap store page pop!

Article Tutorials

Last updated: February 2019 When you publish a snap you want to grab the attention of as many users as possible. The Snap Advocacy team regularly review high quality, new and interesting snaps published in the store so that we can feature them in Editor’s Picks, blog about them here or promote them via social

Martin Wimpress
5 July 2018