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Amrisha Prashar
21 November 2016

VisionMobile: State of the Developer Nation Survey

Article Desktop

We’re proud to be supporting the State of the Developer Nation Survey run by our friends at VisionMobile! This is the 12th developer survey, focusing on a 360 view of developer tools, skills and salaries. The survey features questions on topics like programming languages, platforms, app categories, new technologies,...

Amrisha Prashar
21 November 2016

didrocks
3 November 2016

10 IoT-focused desktop snaps written in October

Article Desktop

This month we’ve selected 10 of our favourite IoT targeted snaps! And to recap for those of you that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats such as .deb, .rpm, and others. They are secure, isolated and

didrocks
3 November 2016

Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

Ubuntu 16.10 brings Unity 8 to desktop and more snap installations

Article Desktop

The recent release of Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak includes a developer preview of Unity 8 for desktop and the installation of snaps! The universal ‘snap’ Linux packages combine both container and packaging technologies to give developers a single format to distribute their apps and services from cloud to personal computing...

Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

Guest
2 November 2016

Static code analyser for Ubuntu

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Ekaterina Milovidova, from viva64. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Static code analysis is the process of detecting errors and flaws in the source code of programs. There is a large number of static analysis tools created for various...

Guest
2 November 2016

Guest
27 October 2016

Travel-friendly Lemur Ubuntu laptop updated to Kaby Lake

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Ryan Sipes, community manager at System76. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com We would like to introduce you to the newest version of the extremely portable Lemur laptop. Like all System76 laptops the Lemur ships with Ubuntu, and you can...

Guest
27 October 2016

Canonical
25 October 2016

Infographic: Ubuntu Advantage explained

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu Advantage is the commercial support package from Canonical. It includes Landscape, the Ubuntu systems management tool, and the Canonical Livepatch Service, which enables you to apply kernel fixes without restarting your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systems. Ubuntu Advantage gives the world’s largest enterprises the assurance...

Canonical
25 October 2016

Tom Callway
20 October 2016

Live kernel patching from Canonical now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Article Cloud and server

We are delighted to announce the availability of a new service for Ubuntu which any user can enable on their current installations – the Canonical Livepatch Service. This new live kernel patching service can be used on any Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system (using the generic Linux 4.4 kernel) to minimise unplanned downtime and...

Tom Callway
20 October 2016

Will Cooke
13 October 2016

Unity 8 preview session in Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak

Article Desktop

Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak has landed and brings with it the Unity 8 technical preview desktop session. Unity 8 has been the face of the Ubuntu phone and tablet for a few years and has quickly evolved its convergence feature set to allow it to work seamlessly between form factors such as phones, tablets and

Will Cooke
13 October 2016

Didier Roche
5 October 2016

10 desktop snaps written in September

Article Desktop

We’ve been speaking a lot around snaps…and as a re-cap for those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats such as .deb, .rpm, and others. They are secure, isolated and allow apps to be rolled back

Didier Roche
5 October 2016

Guest
5 October 2016

The new XPS 13 Developer Edition lands in Europe and United States

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Today the 6th generation XPS 13 developer edition makes its debut in both the US and Europe (Canada to follow). This Kaby Lake-based system comes with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS preloaded and...

Guest
5 October 2016

Michael Hall
4 October 2016

Snap interview with Krita

Article Desktop

This is the second in a series of interviews with Snap adopters, you can read the first interview here. If you have an interesting snap story to tell, please contact me. I’ve always been a big fan of Krita, so when I started working on snap packaging it was high on my list to do. In doing

Michael Hall
4 October 2016

Guest
29 September 2016

Meet ORWL. The first open source, physically secure computer

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Daniel Nelson from Design Shift, makers of ORWL. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com If someone has physical access to your computer with secure documents present, it’s game over! ORWL is designed to solve this as the first open source...

Guest
29 September 2016

Canonical
29 September 2016

Releasing the 4.1.0 Ubuntu SDK IDE

Article Desktop

The testing phase took longer than we have expected but finally we are ready. To compensate this delay we have even upgraded the IDE to the most recent 4.1.0 QtCreator. Based on QtCreator 4.1.0 We have based the new IDE on the most recent QtCreator upstream release, which brings a lot of new features and

Canonical
29 September 2016

Will Cooke
19 September 2016

Low Graphics Mode in Unity 7

Article Desktop

Unity 7 has had a low graphics mode for a long time but recently we’ve been making it better. Improvements have been made to reduce the amount of visual effects that are seen while running in low graphics mode.  At a high level this includes things like: Reducing the amount of animation in elements such as the window...

Will Cooke
19 September 2016

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