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Will Cooke
27 October 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: GNOME Fixes & New Snaps

Article Desktop

I’ll be starting the weekly round-up posts again now that the release is out and 18.04 is getting under way. At this early stage in the development cycle we’re spending a week or so tidying up the loose ends from 17.10, SRUing the important fixes that we’ve found, getting ready to sync new packages from

Will Cooke
27 October 2017


Sarah Dickinson
26 October 2017

Ubuntu Core and snaps for easy IoT deployment

Article Desktop

Thinger.io has grown to over 10,000 registered users, but with such growing demand, they needed a quicker way to deliver their systems and applications. With a philosophy of using flexible and open technologies, Thinger.io discovered snaps as their ideal solution.

Sarah Dickinson
26 October 2017


Ken VanDine
24 October 2017

Latest and greatest versions of GNOME apps on YOUR desktop!

Article Desktop

Want to run the latest GNOME applications on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 and 17.10? Actually, not just Ubuntu, many other distributions such as Fedora, Linux Mint and Debian that support snap. We have now packaged a pretty extensive list of the latest GNOME apps as snaps and provided them in the Snap store. Any of these snaps

Ken VanDine
24 October 2017


Canonical
19 October 2017

Ubuntu 17.10 releases with GNOME, Kubernetes 1.8 & minimal base images

News Canonical announcements

19th October, London, UK: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 17.10 featuring a new GNOME desktop on Wayland, and new versions of KDE, MATE and Budgie to suit a wide range of tastes. On the cloud, 17.10 brings Kubernetes 1.8 for hyper-elastic container operations, and minimal base images for containers. This...

Canonical
19 October 2017


David Callé
18 October 2017

Fresh Snaps from September 2017

Article Desktop

October, it’s almost time for a new Ubuntu release! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about spending relaxing time with your computer: playing games, listening to music and enjoying beautiful GNOME applications! If the term snaps doesn’t ring a bell, they are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing

David Callé
18 October 2017


Canonical
12 October 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: October 12, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com...

Canonical
12 October 2017


Canonical
11 October 2017

Kernel Team Summary- October 11, 2017

Article Cloud and server

October 04 through October 09 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~2 days away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~1 week away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A 4.13.4 based kernel is available for...

Canonical
11 October 2017


Sarah Dickinson
11 October 2017

elementary on why snaps are right for their Linux distro

Article Desktop

elementary is the company behind the elementary OS Linux distribution and the associated app store. Celebrating their tenth anniversary this year, elementary began in 2007 with their first release in 2011. They are currently on their 4th release (Loki) and are working towards their 5th (Juno) with Jupiter, Luna and...

Sarah Dickinson
11 October 2017


Canonical
5 October 2017

Security Team Update: October 5, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com...

Canonical
5 October 2017


Sarah Dickinson
4 October 2017

Heroku as a snap: talking security, Snapcraft & daily updates

Article Desktop

Created 10 years ago and now owned by Salesforce, Heroku is a hosted cloud platform as a service (PaaS) which makes it easy for developers to run apps and services at scale. Heroku’s focus is on the developer experience and productivity. With that in mind, we caught up with Jeff Dickey (CLI Engineer) at the

Sarah Dickinson
4 October 2017


Kyle Fazzari
3 October 2017

Snap install-time setup: the install hook

Article Desktop

This article originally appeared on Kyle’s blog When it comes to developing snaps, there’s a particular confusion out there that I see over and over again: build-time versus run-time. For example: “I’m building a snap, but I can’t seem to convince Snapcraft to place my config file in $SNAP_DATA.” In this post, I want to show

Kyle Fazzari
3 October 2017


Canonical
28 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 27, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com...

Canonical
28 September 2017


Guest
25 September 2017

UbuCon Europe 2017

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Marius Quabeck. I’ve been to many Ubuntu related events before, but what surprises me every time about UbuCons is the outstanding work by the community organising these events. Earlier this month, I was in Paris for UbuCon Europe 2017. I had quite high expectations about the event/location and the

Guest
25 September 2017


Will Cooke
22 September 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 22, 2017

Article Desktop

We’re less than a week away from Final Beta! It seems to have come round very quickly this cycle. Next week we’re at the Ubuntu Rally in New York City where we will be putting the finishing touches to the beta. In the meantime, here’s a quick rundown on what happened this week: GNOME The

Will Cooke
22 September 2017