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9 posts from December 2017
Canonical welcome Spotify as a snap for Linux users
By Canonical, 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...
Fresh Snaps from November 2017
By David Callé, 20 December 2017
The past month has been exciting in the snap world, between getting ready to welcome our Google Code-in students, improving the developer dashboard and...
JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives
By Sarah Dickinson, 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...
Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update – December 15th 2017
By Will Cooke, 15 December 2017
Here’s the last newsletter for 2017, we’ll be back in the new year. On behalf of the whole Desktop Team I wish you all a happy holiday and a peaceful 2018....
cloud-init 17.2 Released
By Joshua Powers, 15 December 2017
As announced, cloud-init 17.2 was released this week. From the announcement, some highlights include: CLI added the clean and status subcommands Support for...
UbuCon Europe: 27th, 28th, 29th of April 2018 in Gijón/Xixón, Spain
By Canonical, 14 December 2017
The next Ubucon Europe will take place at the Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos in Gijón/Xixón (Asturias, Spain), the 27th, 28th & 29th of April 2018. The Antiguo...
Rocket.chat achieves simplicity through snaps
By Sarah Dickinson, 11 December 2017
Switching to snaps, Rocket.Chat has been able to get its product into the hands of users with as few steps as possible, switching a multi-stage set-up process...
Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring
By Sarah Dickinson, 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,...
Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: December 1, 2017
By Will Cooke, 1 December 2017
GNOME GNOME Disk Utility If you have snaps installed and open the Disks utility, your snaps appear as loop devices. We found this to be confusing and a bit...