Blog posts tagged
"Snap"

120 posts


Alan Pope
16 May 2018

Fresh Snaps from April 2018

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In case you missed it, here are some of the snaps we featured during April 2018. Here you’ll find snaps to enhance your productivity, tools for creatives, IDEs for developers and games for the weekend. You can stay up to date with our editorial picks by following @snapcraftio on Twitter where we share three new

Alan Pope
16 May 2018


Canonical
15 May 2018

Trust and security in the Snap Store

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Last Friday (11 May 2018) we learned that a snap was mining cryptocurrency in the background while the application was running. The practical implication of that is the overuse of local resources on a user’s system, well beyond what a typical application would use, consuming more energy than would be expected. The net...

Canonical
15 May 2018


Guest
8 May 2018

An introduction to Zenkit – now available as a snap

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This is a guest blog written by Siobhan O’Rorke of Zenkit. In October 2016, Zenkit was released as an app designed to help you ‘organise anything’, enabling companies to digitise all of their business processes in a single app. It’s innovative approach to presenting data has since garnered worldwide attention, and high...

Guest
8 May 2018


Canonical
26 April 2018

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS optimised for security, multi-cloud, containers & AI

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26th April 2018, London, UK: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – the newest version of the most widely used Linux for workstations, cloud and IoT, is now available. “Multi-cloud operations are the new normal” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu. “Boot-time and performance-optimised images of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

Canonical
26 April 2018


Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2018

Ora as a snap: ensuring users are benefiting from the latest version

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Ora is a user-friendly task management service with integrated time-tracking, reports, list view, git integrations and many other features. Often referred to by users as ‘the sweet spot between Trello and Jira’, Ora provides almost a complete match of Jira’s feature set but in a new and more accessible way. Last month,...

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2018


Jamie Bennett
18 April 2018

Eclipse 2018 survey: The IoT landscape, what it empirically looks like

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Every year the Eclipse Foundation along with other sponsors conduct an online survey of the IoT market looking at what technologies are being used and how. The 2018 edition of that survey has just been made available and I thought it would be a great idea to look at some of the overarching trends.  The Internet

Jamie Bennett
18 April 2018


Guest
5 April 2018

The Nextcloud Box: a review of building an IoT device with snaps

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In 2016, Canonical, Nextcloud and WDLabs introduced the Nextcloud Box, the first IoT style device running with snaps out of the box. Besides sales of nearly 2K boxes before Western Digital shut down their research division WDLabs late last year, the snap been extremely popular with some days hitting over 10,000...

Guest
5 April 2018


Sarah Dickinson
29 March 2018

Growing ONLYOFFICE through snaps and the Snap Store

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  ONLYOFFICE is a project developed by IT experts from the Latvian company Ascensio System SIA. WIth ONLYOFFICE business solutions, which are the primary product range, you can run a fast and secure cloud office that comprises powerful online document editors and multiple business tools (CRM, project management, mail...

Sarah Dickinson
29 March 2018


Sarah Dickinson
26 March 2018

CircleCI evangelist looks to snaps to bridge cross-distro divide

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CircleCI helps developers test software and deploy it quickly but at a high standard. It is a key element of many developer’s DevOps toolsets. Ricardo Feliciano wears two hats – one as an avid community advocate (under the guise of FelicianoTech) and the other as Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. Ricardo joined the...

Sarah Dickinson
26 March 2018


Canonical
19 March 2018

Firefox Quantum snap now available on Linux-based devices

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London, UK, 19 March 2018: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Mozilla has launched a Firefox snap bringing their latest Quantum browser to multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. Developed by Canonical, snaps are a universal application packaging format for Linux, allowing them to work...

Canonical
19 March 2018


Guest
9 March 2018

An intro to ONLYOFFICE – now available as a snap

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This is a guest blog written by Kseniya Fedoruk of ONLYOFFICE. Two years ago ONLYOFFICE developers released a desktop office suite that combined viewers and editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Last week ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors was released as a snap – the universal Linux packaging format. This...

Guest
9 March 2018


Canonical
7 March 2018

Popular programming language, Kotlin, launches as a snap for Linux

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We are delighted to announce that the latest addition to the snap ecosystem, launching today, is Kotlin – the pragmatic programming language for JVM, Android and browser crafted by JetBrains. Being a general-purpose language, Kotlin works everywhere where Java works from server-side applications, mobile applications...

Canonical
7 March 2018


Canonical
21 February 2018

Canonical announces Ubuntu Core across Rigado’s IoT gateways

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Rigado customers will benefit from open source, cost-effective, secure software in their commercial IoT deployments London, UK –  21st February 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Ubuntu Core will be deployed across Rigado’s Edge Connectivity gateway solutions, further establishing Ubuntu...

Canonical
21 February 2018


Sarah Dickinson
16 February 2018

Snapcraft through the eyes of its biggest community contributor

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If you’ve spent any time in the Snapcraft forum, it’s quite likely you’ve come across Dani Llewellyn – a keen community advocate or self-proclaimed Snapcrafter. Dani has always had a passion for computing and is completely self-taught. Outside of the community, Dani is a freelance WordPress developer. After getting into...

Sarah Dickinson
16 February 2018