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Holly Hall
30 June 2021

Top 10 apps for a fresh Linux install in 2021

Article Desktop

Are you struggling with too much lag? Is it time for a spring clean and a fresh Linux install? Ready to upgrade to Focal Fossa (LTS) or Hirsute Hippo? Whatever situation you are in, get started quickly with some of the most popular apps you need for a fresh Linux install. Here are all the

Holly Hall
30 June 2021

Holly Hall
24 June 2021

A technical introduction to the Snap Store Proxy

Article Internet of Things

In the world of IoT, it is crucial to be fully in control of your devices. Over-the-air (OTA) updates are essential for a distributed set of devices. This must be carefully managed to ensure that an update is not pushed at a time where the device is active and operation should not be interrupted. To

Holly Hall
24 June 2021

Rhys Davies
8 April 2021

How to make your first snap

Article Desktop

Snaps are a way to package your software so it is easy to install on Linux. If you’re a snap developer already or you’re a part of the Linux community, and you care about how software is deployed, and you’re well versed in how software is packaged, and are tuned into the discussions around packaging

Rhys Davies
8 April 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
4 March 2021

Honey, I Shrunk the Snap!

Article Desktop

The year is 1989. I bought a computer game called F-16: Combat Pilot, a flight simulator featuring free-flight, five types of single-player missions, a full campaign mode, serial-port multiplayer, and then some. Gloriously wrapped in four colors and magnetized on two single-density 5.25-inch floppy disks. Total size:...

Igor Ljubuncic
4 March 2021

Jeremie Deray
12 May 2020

How to set up TurtleBot3 in minutes with snaps (2/2)

Article Robotics

Welcome to part two of our TurtleBot3 set up, namely the turtlebot3c project. In part one, we rearranged the launch files and configuration files of the TurtleBot3 so that we have four entry points to our robot’s functionalities. One per application in our snap. Now it is time to build the snap so that it

Jeremie Deray
12 May 2020

Jeremie Deray
29 April 2020

How to set up TurtleBot3 in minutes with snaps (1/2)

Article Robotics

If you are a regular reader of our blog, you already know that our team got its hands on some TurtleBot3 robots. In previous posts, we have seen how to build them better, and how to improve the robot’s security with Ubuntu. In this post we will see how to build a snap to get

Jeremie Deray
29 April 2020

Alan Pope
15 August 2019

8 Ways Snaps are Different

Article Ubuntu

Depending on the audience, the discussion of software packaging elicits very different responses. Users generally don’t care how software is packaged, so long as it works. Developers typically want software packaging as a task to not burden them and just magically happen. Snaps aren’t magic, but aim to achieve both ease...

Alan Pope
15 August 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
27 June 2019

Development tips and tricks – snap try and snapcraft pack

Article Desktop

Over the past several months, we have shared with you several articles and tutorials showing how to accelerate application development so that a typically demanding, time-consuming process becomes an easier, faster and more fun one. Today, we’d like to introduce some additional tips and tricks. Namely, we want to talk...

Igor Ljubuncic
27 June 2019

Canonical
2 April 2019

AWS IoT Greengrass released as a snap

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical and AWS are excited to announce the public release of AWS IoT Greengrass as a snap. AWS IoT Greengrass is software that brings local compute, messaging, data caching, sync, and ML inference capabilities to your IoT device. IoT and embedded developers can now easily install and get started with IoT Greengrass...

Canonical
2 April 2019

Eric Jensen
18 March 2019

The path to Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

At Canonical, helping customers overcome their challenges is what we do every day. In the IoT world, a common challenge we encounter is customers who are interested in transitioning to Ubuntu Core and the snapcraft.io ecosystem, but are unsure how to begin. This post covers the recommended approach. In most cases, it’s...

Eric Jensen
18 March 2019

alfonsosanchezbeato
15 March 2019

Porting Ubuntu Core 18 on Nvidia Jetson TX1 Developer Kit

Tutorials Internet of Things

Ubuntu Core (UC) is Canonical’s take in the IoT space. There are pre-built images for officially supported devices, like Raspberry Pi or Intel NUCs, but for other boards, when there is no community port, one needs to create one on their own. This is the the case if one wants to run Ubuntu Core 18

alfonsosanchezbeato
15 March 2019

Alan Pope
24 January 2019

Zero to Snap – Rev up your packaging

Article Desktop

Software developers often have enough to worry about. Their focus is creating the best application they can, often without having to consider packaging. We recently discovered Akira, which illustrates this well. The small team of developers are hard at work on the application, so software packaging isn’t a high priority...

Alan Pope
24 January 2019

Canonical
6 December 2018

Canonical launches MicroK8s – deploy Kubernetes in seconds

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical has released MicroK8s – a fast and efficient upstream Kubernetes delivered as a single snap package that installs on 42 flavours of Linux. With a small disk and memory footprint, MicroK8s provides an efficient way to deploy Kubernetes in seconds, whether on the desktop, the server, an edge cloud, or IoT...

Canonical
6 December 2018

Sarah Dickinson
29 November 2018

GitKraken picks up community demand to adopt snaps

Article Desktop

Used by the likes of Netflix, Tesla and Apple, GitKraken is the go-to home for developers who are looking for a more user-friendly interface for Git with integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and VSTS (Azure DevOps). Established a couple of years ago, GitKraken offers a Git Client for Windows, Mac and Linux, and...

Sarah Dickinson
29 November 2018

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