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Atom is now available as a snap for Ubuntu

by David Callé on 11 May 2017

There’s a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Atom. The hackable editor, backed by GitHub Launched in 2014, Atom has been rapidly adopted by a large community...

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Discord is now available as a snap for Ubuntu and other distributions

by David Callé on 4 May 2017

There’s a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Discord. Ever heard of Discord? Within 1.5 years of its launch Discord has become an almost mandatory tool for...

Desktop

Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 and 26

by David Callé on 11 April 2017

As part as our mission to get snaps running everywhere, we are pleased to announce that support for snaps has now officially landed in Fedora, starting with...

Desktop

Fresh Snaps from March 2017

by didrocks on 6 April 2017

It’s that time of the month! We’ve put together a selection of top ten snaps written in March ranging from snapping an electron app through to a simple screen...

Internet of Things

Fresh Snaps from February 2017

by Didier Roche on 9 March 2017

It’s that time of the month! Didier has put together a selection of top ten snaps written in February ranging from blockchain to graphical applications. To...

Desktop

8 KDE snaps written in January

by didrocks on 9 February 2017

It’s a special this month. Instead of our round-up of desktop snaps, we’re focusing on KDE! 8 KDE snaps written in January have been selected from a...

Desktop

10 desktop snaps written in December

by Amrisha Prashar on 5 January 2017

It’s that time of the month! Evan Dandrea put together a selection of top ten snaps written in December. To recap for those of you that may not know, snaps...

Desktop

10 IoT-focused desktop snaps written in October

by didrocks on 3 November 2016

This month we’ve selected 10 of our favourite IoT targeted snaps! And to recap for those of you that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to...

Canonical announcements

Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10

by Canonical on 13 October 2016

Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and...

Desktop

10 desktop snaps written in September

by Didier Roche on 5 October 2016

We’ve been speaking a lot around snaps…and as a re-cap for those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it...

Desktop

The new XPS 13 Developer Edition lands in Europe and United States

by Guest on 5 October 2016

This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Today the 6th...

Desktop

Snap interview with Krita

by Michael Hall on 4 October 2016

This is the second in a series of interviews with Snap adopters, you can read the first interview here. If you have an interesting snap story to tell,...