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3 posts from May 2021
Hey snap, where’s my data?
By Igor Ljubuncic, 28 May 2021
Snaps are self-contained applications, isolated from the underlying operating systems by several layers of confinement. This mechanism introduces security...
How to troubleshoot application issues and crashes with snapd gdbserver
By Igor Ljubuncic, 13 May 2021
Sometimes, applications may not run well, or they could even crash. When such issues occur, it is useful to have a consistent, reproducible method of...
The snap developer’s guide on how to migrate to new bases
By Igor Ljubuncic, 7 May 2021
A couple of weeks ago, we published an article about Ubuntu 16.04 entering Extended Security Maintenance (ESM), and the implications of this change for snap...