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5 posts from December 2019
Building a C snap by example
By Igor Ljubuncic, 19 December 2019
Quite often, getting started with new technologies is a chicken and an egg problem. You want to fall back and rely upon work done by others, so you can learn...
Building a Rust snap by Example
By Alan Pope, 13 December 2019
There’s plenty of official documentation which details how to create snaps. We live in the copy/paste generation though. So lets walk through a real-world...
Canonical sponsors WSLConf at Microsoft HQ
By haydenb, 9 December 2019
Canonical is announcing today it will be a featured sponsor of WSLConf, the first conference dedicated to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) platform....
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS feature planning and priority survey
By Rhys Davies, 9 December 2019
This 10-15 minute survey will shape Canonical’s work on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and beyond. Tell us what’s important for you! We care equally about personal,...
Snapcraft now auto-detects missing dependencies
By Igor Ljubuncic, 5 December 2019
When you build snaps, the process of composing a complete snapcraft.yaml file will usually revolve around three main activities: parts, build requirements and...