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Skype discuss easing Linux maintenance with snaps
by Sarah Dickinson on 13 February 2018
Skype is used by hundreds of millions of users globally to make free video and voice calls, send files, video and instant messages. It has been two years...
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Snapcraft Summit summary – day 1
by Alan Pope on 1 February 2018
The first day of the Snapcraft Summit in Seattle kicked off with a simple round of introductions and each participant voicing their plans for the week. People...
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Plex joins Snapcraft Summit to advance snap learnings
by Sarah Dickinson on 31 January 2018
Plex is the leading streaming platform for personal media collections, also offering over-the-air Live TV and DVR capabilities, and curated news from over 200...
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A peek at the Snapcraft Summit
by Sergio Schvezov on 26 January 2018
The Snapcraft Summit, taking place in Seattle from January 29th to February 2nd, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon being attended by major...
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Tutorial: Continuous delivery of snaps with Circle CI
by David Callé on 19 January 2018
Bullet-proof continuous delivery of software is crucial to the health of your community, more than a way to run manual tests, it also enables your early...
Canonical announcements
Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem
by Canonical on 18 January 2018
The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the...
Canonical announcements
Canonical welcome Spotify as a snap for Linux users
by Canonical on 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...
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Fresh Snaps from November 2017
by David Callé on 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...
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JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives
by Sarah Dickinson on 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...
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Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring
by Sarah Dickinson on 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,...
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Announcing snapcraft 2.35
by Sergio Schvezov on 22 November 2017
The snapcraft team is pleased to announce that version 2.35 has been released. Contributions This release saw some excellent contributions from outside the...