Blog posts tagged
"snapcraft.io"

279 posts

Alex Cattle
6 September 2019

Management of snaps in a controlled, enterprise environment

Article Ubuntu

Few enterprises want all their computing devices to be fully exposed to the internet. In an environment of ever-growing security threats, isolating internal networks from the wider internet is not simply best practice, but borderline essential. However, with all the benefits that restricted networks provide, it can pose...

Alex Cattle
6 September 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
29 August 2019

A technical comparison between snaps and debs

Article Desktop

How are snaps different from debs? This is a common question that comes up in technical discussions in the Linux community, especially among developers and users who have just embarked on their snap journey and are interested in learning more details. Indeed, the introduction of self-contained application format likes...

Igor Ljubuncic
29 August 2019

Sarah Dickinson
27 August 2019

Snaps help Xibo rekindle its relationship with Linux

Article Internet of Things

Sometimes, relationships just don’t work out. At first, it seemed that Xibo and Linux were made for each other. Xibo had a popular open source digital signage and player system, while Linux brought a community of enthusiastic users. Dan Garner of Xibo remembers why they broke up in 2015: “Releasing our player on Linux was

Sarah Dickinson
27 August 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
22 August 2019

Useful security software from the Snap Store

Article Desktop

Overall, most Linux distributions offer sane, reasonable defaults that balance security and functionality quite well. However, most of the security mechanisms are transparent, running in the background, and you still might require some additional, practical software to bolster your security array. Back in July, we...

Igor Ljubuncic
22 August 2019

Sarah Dickinson
21 August 2019

Jupyter looks to distro-agnostic packaging for the democratisation of installation

Article Desktop

When users of your application range from high school students to expert data scientists, it’s often wise to avoid any assumptions about their system configurations. The Jupyter Notebook is popular with a diverse user base, enabling the creation and sharing of documents containing live code, visualisations, and...

Sarah Dickinson
21 August 2019

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

Sarah Dickinson
12 August 2019

Julia and Jeff discover the ease of snaps at the Snapcraft Summit

Desktop Desktop

Julia is an open source, high-level, general-purpose, dynamic programming language designed for numerical analysis and computational science, launched in 2012. It solves the “two language” problem: developers can use Julia for both computational and interactive work, instead of needing to work with two different...

Sarah Dickinson
12 August 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
8 August 2019

Slow snap? Trace-exec to the rescue!

Article Desktop

Slow applications are never fun. But not knowing why an application is not behaving correctly can be even more frustrating. A well-designed system that can diagnose performance or startup issues and inform the user about the problem goes a long way toward mitigating the frustration, and may even help resolve the root...

Igor Ljubuncic
8 August 2019

Canonical
31 July 2019

Digital signage platform Xibo launches as a snap

Article Internet of Things

The open source digital signage platform, Xibo, is now available as a snap – the universal Linux app packaging format. Xibo provides a comprehensive suite of digital signage products, with its Content Management System (CMS) at the heart of this experience-led offering. Xibo for Linux is completely free and natively...

Canonical
31 July 2019

Alex Cattle
30 July 2019

A shift to the Linux app store experience

Article Internet of Things

Linux software developers historically have faced a number of challenges including fragmentation, distribution complexity and a lack of metrics into the success of their applications. Once an application is built, the journey does not end there – for companies and individual developers creating apps, thought needs to be...

Alex Cattle
30 July 2019

Sarah Dickinson
29 July 2019

Manjaro, snaps and the spirit of collaboration

Desktop Desktop

Linux distributions are all about freedom of choice for the end-user. However, there is a natural element of competition too. So, why did Philip Müller, one of the founders of the Manjaro distribution, come to the 2019 Snapcraft Summit in Montreal? There are several good reasons, according to Philip. First, he says,...

Sarah Dickinson
29 July 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
25 July 2019

Handy productivity software for your home and office

Article Desktop

Discovery is an integral part of any store experience. Sometimes, you know what you want and need, and the experience can be short and transactional. On other occasions, you want to explore, and search for new things. This applies equally to shopping malls as it does to software. In this article, we would like to

Igor Ljubuncic
25 July 2019

Sarah Dickinson
23 July 2019

Community Snapcrafter on MicroK8s, summits and the evolving nature of snaps

Article Desktop

In January 2018, Dani Llewellyn joined her first Snapcraft Summit in Seattle in her role as a community Snapcrafter. At that event, we discussed her views on everything snap related from most requested snaps, new feature requests and popular discussion topics. Since then, snaps has grown across every metric and seen...

Sarah Dickinson
23 July 2019

Sarah Dickinson
18 July 2019

CMake leverages the Snapcraft Summit with Travis CI to build snaps

Article Desktop

CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. It is used to control the software compilation process and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in any compiler environment.  While some users of CMake want to stay up to date with the latest...

Sarah Dickinson
18 July 2019

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