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Amrisha Prashar
25 August 2016

25 Linux devices to celebrate 25 years of Linux

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Happy 25th birthday Linux. It’s a monumental milestone! Over the years Canonical has been working on putting Linux in the hands of millions of people and worked with various hardware vendors to release over 1000 models of Linux hardware (!) Today we’re celebrating by showcasing 25 Ubuntu devices released over the years...

Amrisha Prashar
25 August 2016

Dustin Kirkland
9 August 2016

Howdy, Windows! A Six-part Series about Ubuntu-on-Windows for Linux.com

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I hope you’ll enjoy a shiny new 6-part blog series I recently published at Linux.com.The first article is a bit of back story, perhaps a behind-the-scenes look at the motivations, timelines, and some of the work performed between Microsoft and Canonica

Dustin Kirkland
9 August 2016

Stephanie
2 August 2016

The App Design Guides go live (bit by bit)

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The App Design Guides have a new design and content refresh to better communicate the new convergent UI toolkit, and visualise best practice for designers and developer wishing to build an app or scope on Ubuntu. We will be posting these guides over the coming days and weeks. What’s to come… Phase 1 – Get

Stephanie
2 August 2016

Amrisha Prashar
2 August 2016

Best converged apps

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In June we hosted a competition that asked developers – how well their app converges across devices? We were looking out for apps that beautifully converged across Phone, Tablet and Desktop using our SDK AdaptivePageLayout component. The numbers are in and we’ve selected our winners! Thank you to all who participated in...

Amrisha Prashar
2 August 2016

Will Cooke
28 July 2016

Ubuntu version 16.04 point 1 is out

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Today we have enabled upgrade notifications from 14.04 LTS to the first point-release for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, versioned 16.04.1. The first point release for an LTS comes out 3 months after the initial release and then every 6 months until the next LTS is released. Upgrade notifications happen a short while later after...

Will Cooke
28 July 2016

Canonical
13 July 2016

Skype for Ubuntu…available in Beta mode!

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Super exciting news for the Ubuntu and Linux community! News has just been announced that the Beta version of a new Skype for Linux has been launched! A brand new WebRTC version of Skype for Linux will be available from today which will allow continued support for the Ubuntu users for years to come. Skype

Canonical
13 July 2016

Canonical
7 July 2016

Contributing to the world of snaps

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Zygmunt Krynicki wrote about the availability of bite-sized bugs for the snapd project.I took this as an opportunity to go through the snapcraft bugs as well and tag a few as bitesize myself. snapcraft is written in python, nicely commented documented and comes with a comprehensive test-suite. The people working on it...

Canonical
7 July 2016

Amrisha Prashar
7 July 2016

Mycroft: The open source answer to natural language platforms

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We’re thrilled to be working with Mycroft, the open source answer to proprietary natural language platform. Mycroft has adopted Ubuntu Core and Snaps to deliver their software to Mycroft hardware, as well as Snaps to enable desktop users to install the software regardless of the Linux distribution they are using! CEO of...

Amrisha Prashar
7 July 2016

Didier Roche
7 July 2016

10 Desktop Snaps written in June

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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. Snaps are secure, isolated, secure and allow apps to be rolled back should an issue occur. Snaps really are the future

Didier Roche
7 July 2016

Didier Roche
6 July 2016

Announcing new snap desktop launchers

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BackgroundIntegrating desktop applications with snaps has been a little bit challenging in terms of getting them looking and behaving as part of the system. This means following general desktop theming, having global application menu integration, getting the icon caches, getting configuration keys and such. Also, the...

Didier Roche
6 July 2016

Dustin Kirkland
24 June 2016

HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!

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SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux packaging format of the future. And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the SNAP store provided by Canonical. Developers are welcome to publish their software for

Dustin Kirkland
24 June 2016

Dustin Kirkland
20 June 2016

HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!

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Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever wanted to run classic (apt/deb) Ubuntu Server on a RaspberryPi2?Well, you’re in luck! &n

Dustin Kirkland
20 June 2016

Dustin Kirkland
18 June 2016

The Changelog Podcast — Ubuntu Everywhere

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I had the honor and privilege a couple of weeks ago, to participate in a recording of The Changelog, a podcast dedicated to Open Source technology.You can listen to it here.These guys — Jerod and Adam — produce a fantastic show, and we covered a lot

Dustin Kirkland
18 June 2016

Amrisha Prashar
1 June 2016

Over-The-Air 11: We’ve gone wireless!

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We’re pretty excited about this OTA! We’ve introduced wireless capabilities to the Meizu Pro 5, which gives users the full Ubuntu PC experience running from a smartphone. All the services running from the phone are available on desktop through just a wireless dongle and no cables – giving you the full Ubuntu convergence...

Amrisha Prashar
1 June 2016

All you need to know about the fast, free, and user friendly Ubuntu desktop operating system.

All you need to know about the fast, free, and user friendly
Ubuntu desktop operating system.