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Canonical
9 August 2017

git ubuntu clone

Article Cloud and server

This is the second post in a collaborative series between Robie Basak and myself to introduce (more formally) git ubuntuto a broader audience. There is an index of all our planned posts in the first post. As mentioned there, it is important to keep in mind that the tooling and implementation are still highly...

Canonical
9 August 2017

Alan Pope
8 August 2017

Ubuntu Artful Desktop Fit and Finish Sprint

Article Desktop

The Artful development cycle is full speed ahead to the Ubuntu 17.10 release in October. As you may have heard, we’re switching the default desktop from Unity to GNOME Shell in this cycle. With such a significant change, we need all the eyeballs we can get on every part of the desktop experience. As usual

Alan Pope
8 August 2017

Gustavo Niemeyer
3 August 2017

Stable releases, sprints, & more: A snapd recap

Article Desktop

The past few weeks have been very busy in the snapd world, and involved not only coding by itself but also face-to-face meet ups to discuss and detail what is to come. If you’re interested in what has been going on and what is to come, please read on. 2.26 went stable! It has been

Gustavo Niemeyer
3 August 2017

Canonical
3 August 2017

Upgrading your Ubuntu-on-Windows install to the app version

Article Desktop

Our team and Microsoft recently released Ubuntu as a Windows app store application! If you toyed with the “bash on Ubuntu on Windows” version before and would like to try the latest and greatest, read on! Saving your data If your “bash on ubuntu on windows” environment has some data you’d like to keep, make sure you

Canonical
3 August 2017

Will Cooke
28 July 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 28, 2017

Article Desktop

Here’s the latest in the world of Desktop: GNOME We’ve been looking at ways to port the feature of allowing the sound to go above 100%. This is needed because some computers (e.g. Thinkpad X220) have a fairly low volume at 100% and so adding some software amplification is a useful addition. While this does

Will Cooke
28 July 2017

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
25 July 2017

ss: another way to get socket statistics

Article Cloud and server

In an earlier blog post I mentioned ss, another tool that comes with the iproute2 package and allows you to query statistics about sockets. The same thing that can be done with netstat, with the added benefit that it is typically a little bit faster, and shorter to type. Just ss by default will display much the same...

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
25 July 2017

Will Cooke
24 July 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 24, 2017

Article Desktop

GNOME We’re working on adding captive portal detection to Artful. We think it would be good if there were an option in the privacy settings to enable or disable this. We’ve done some initial work as preparation – some patches have been submitted to Network Manager’s upstream to enable an option to be created. They are...

Will Cooke
24 July 2017

Robie Basak
24 July 2017

Developing Ubuntu using git

Article Cloud and server

Back in 2014, I published some information and tooling on using git for Ubuntudevelopment,even though most Ubuntu development wasn’t done with git at the time.Three years on, this work has expanded significantly. Most of the server teamis using git for daily work when touching Ubuntu packaging. We have expandedour...

Robie Basak
24 July 2017

Dustin Kirkland
21 July 2017

Dustin Kirkland: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey

Article Desktop

Back in March, we asked the HackerNews community, “What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?”: https://ubu.one/AskHNA passionate discussion ensued, the results of which are distilled into this post: http://ubu.one/thankHNIn fact, you can check that link, http://ubu.one/thankHN and see our progress so far this cycle.  We...

Dustin Kirkland
21 July 2017

Will Cooke
19 July 2017

Ubuntu Artful Desktop July Shakedown – call for testing

Article Desktop

We’re mid-way through the Ubuntu Artful development cycle, with the 17.10 release rapidly approaching on the horizon. Now is a great time to start exercising the new GNOME goodness that’s landed on our recent daily images! Please download the ISO, test it out on your own hardware, and file bugs where appropriate. If...

Will Cooke
19 July 2017

luciadecastro
18 July 2017

Hiri, the desktop snap that lets you use Microsoft Exchange on Linux

Article Desktop

Earlier this month Hiri launched a snap, making their application very easy to be used by Linux users. We talked to Dave Power, co-founder of Hiri, to understand how this journey was and the value of snaps for his business. Install from Ubuntu Store Can you tell us what is Hiri about? Hiri is a

luciadecastro
18 July 2017

Will Cooke
14 July 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 14, 2017

Article Desktop

GNOME GDM has now replaced LightDM. We’re working on the transition between display managers to make sure that users are seamlessly transitioned to the new stack. We’re doing regular automated upgrade tests to make sure everything keeps working, but we’re keen to get your bug reports. We’ve spent time cleaning up the...

Will Cooke
14 July 2017

David Callé
12 July 2017

Fresh Snaps from June 2017

Article Desktop

From fast and secure file sharing to Kubernetes charts management, from email clients to classic text editors for your Pi, our selection of top snaps for June has something for everyone. If the term “snaps” doesn’t ring a bell, they are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing many advantages over traditional

David Callé
12 July 2017

elopio
11 July 2017

Deploying robotic code as a single package across dev boards

Article Desktop

I love playing with my prototyping boards. Here at Ubuntu we are designingthe core operating systemto support every single-board computer,and keep it safe, updated and simple. I’ve learned a lot about physicalcomputing, but I always have a big prob

elopio
11 July 2017

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