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Plex joins Snapcraft Summit to advance snap learnings
by Sarah Dickinson on 31 January 2018
Plex is the leading streaming platform for personal media collections, also offering over-the-air Live TV and DVR capabilities, and curated news from over 200...
Canonical announcements
Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem
by Canonical on 18 January 2018
The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the...
Canonical announcements
Canonical welcome Spotify as a snap for Linux users
by Canonical on 20 December 2017
Universal Linux app packaging format enables Linux users to install the popular music streaming service with a simple click and install London, UK – December...
Desktop
JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives
by Sarah Dickinson on 19 December 2017
Used by companies as diverse as NASA, Pinterest, and CitiBank, JetBrains takes the repetition out of a developer’s life through their range of developer tools...
Desktop
Desktop
Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring
by Sarah Dickinson on 5 December 2017
In the latest interview with a snap developer, we spoke to Ben Gotow who is the lead maintainer of Mailspring, a free, modern email client for Linux, Windows,...
Internet of Things
Building a future-proofed IoT consumer device with brand stores
by Sarah Dickinson on 20 November 2017
When building or deploying any IoT device either in remote locations or consumer’s homes, it is now essential for manufacturers to consider and review how...
Internet of Things
Discovering snaps with .NET and Microsoft
by Sarah Dickinson on 8 November 2017
.NET Core, run by the .NET Foundation and Microsoft, is a free, cross-platform platform that supports building and running the next generation of web...
Internet of Things
Launching Fingbox: from idea to distribution in under a year
by Sarah Dickinson on 2 November 2017
If you’re using a network security and scanning tool at home then there is a strong chance you have adopted Fing – the free network scanner for iOS and...
Desktop
Latest and greatest versions of GNOME apps on YOUR desktop!
by Ken VanDine on 24 October 2017
Want to run the latest GNOME applications on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 and 17.10? Actually, not just Ubuntu, many other distributions such as Fedora, Linux Mint and...
Desktop
elementary on why snaps are right for their Linux distro
by Sarah Dickinson on 11 October 2017
elementary is the company behind the elementary OS Linux distribution and the associated app store. Celebrating their tenth anniversary this year, elementary...
Desktop
Dustin Kirkland: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey
by Dustin Kirkland on 21 July 2017
Back in March, we asked the HackerNews community, “What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?”: https://ubu.one/AskHNA passionate discussion ensued, the results...