Desktop archives
9 posts from March 2018
Growing ONLYOFFICE through snaps and the Snap Store
By Sarah Dickinson, 29 March 2018
ONLYOFFICE is a project developed by IT experts from the Latvian company Ascensio System SIA. WIth ONLYOFFICE business solutions, which are the primary...
CircleCI evangelist looks to snaps to bridge cross-distro divide
By Sarah Dickinson, 26 March 2018
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...
Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 23rd March 2018
By Will Cooke, 23 March 2018
Bid “bonjour” to our Bionic Beaver! Along with a sneak preview of our official Bionic mascot, it’s a short update this week as we’re all heads-down in bug...
Firefox Quantum snap now available on Linux-based devices
By Canonical, 19 March 2018
London, UK, 19 March 2018: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Mozilla has launched a Firefox snap bringing their latest Quantum...
Your first robot: Sharing with others [5/5]
By Kyle Fazzari, 16 March 2018
This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we discussed methods of...
Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 16th March 2018
By Will Cooke, 16 March 2018
We’ve had a busy few weeks, and so this email is a roll up of what’s been going on in Desktopland. Last week we had a team sprint in Budapest where we got to...
Your first robot: The driver [4/5]
By Kyle Fazzari, 9 March 2018
This is the fourth blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we worked on getting data out of...
An intro to ONLYOFFICE – now available as a snap
By Guest, 9 March 2018
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...
Popular programming language, Kotlin, launches as a snap for Linux
By Canonical, 7 March 2018
We are delighted to announce that the latest addition to the snap ecosystem, launching today, is Kotlin – the pragmatic programming language for JVM, Android...