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7 July 2016

Contributing to the world of snaps

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Zygmunt Krynicki wrote about the availability of bite-sized bugs for the snapd project.I took this as an opportunity to go through the snapcraft bugs as well and tag a few as bitesize myself. snapcraft is written in python, nicely commented documented and comes with a comprehensive test-suite. The people working on it are a lovely bunch a ...

David Barth
7 July 2016

Getting started: Creating Ubuntu apps with Cordova

Phone and tablet Ubuntu tech blog

A few weeks ago we participated in Phonegap Day EU. It was a great opportunity to meet with the Cordova development team and we had a range of app developers gather for this occasion. The latest Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release was demoed, running on a brand new BQ M10 tablet in convergence mode. Creating responsive ...

Amrisha Prashar
7 July 2016

The difference an OTA update can make!

Phone and tablet Ubuntu tech blog

Just over 2 months ago we launched our first convergence device, the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet with partners BQ. Since then we’re constantly working to evolve the platform to provide better overall performance and speed with our Over-the-Air updates (OTA.) Our OTA updates are released approximately 6-8 weeks apart from each other ...

Amrisha Prashar
7 July 2016

Digital Signage meets IoT Series continues!

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Last month we kicked off our first in our Digital Signage meets IoT series focusing on Building success with a RaspberryPi. It was a great session from Screenly founder, Viktor Petersson and Sixteen:Nine editor Dave Haynes who touched on industry trends, disruptive effects on hardware costs and adoption of agile software. If you missed th ...

Amrisha Prashar
7 July 2016

Mycroft: The open source answer to natural language platforms

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

We’re thrilled to be working with Mycroft, the open source answer to proprietary natural language platform. Mycroft has adopted Ubuntu Core and Snaps to deliver their software to Mycroft hardware, as well as Snaps to enable desktop users to install the software regardless of the Linux distribution they are using! CEO of Mycroft, Joshua Mo ...

Didier Roche
7 July 2016

10 Desktop Snaps written in June

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

For those that may not know, Snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats such as .deb, .rpm, and others. Snaps are secure, isolated, secure and allow apps to be rolled back should an issue occur. Snaps really are the future ...

Canonical
6 July 2016

Canonical and Pivotal Collaborate to Deliver Cloud Native Platform

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu to Become Preferred Linux OS for Pivotal Cloud Foundry Leveraging Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage (UA) Support Services Automated Approach to Security Patch Management Provides Game-changing, Rapid Response Approach to Linux Vulnerabilities for Pivotal Cloud Foundry Customers Future Commitment to Formalize Industry Security Certificat ...

Didier Roche
6 July 2016

Announcing new snap desktop launchers

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

BackgroundIntegrating desktop applications with snaps has been a little bit challenging in terms of getting them looking and behaving as part of the system. This means following general desktop theming, having global application menu integration, getting the icon caches, getting configuration keys and such. Also, the technologies and tool ...

Canonical
5 July 2016

e-shelter and Canonical launch Joint Managed OpenStack Private Cloud

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Quick, easy and cost-predictable way to get a fully functional OpenStack cloud Built on Ubuntu OpenStack and using application management tools Juju and MaaS Fully managed cloud service takes away the hassle of day to day IT operations Frankfurt, Germany and London, U.K. 5th July, 2016 – e-shelter, leading data center operator in Europe a ...

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4 July 2016

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Shaping up universal snaps

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Following the announcement of snaps being supported across a range of key Linux distributions, the development teams working on snaps and Snapcraft are making universal snaps one of the main topics of their next sprint in Heidelberg, Germany, from 18-2 ...

Joseph Williams
4 July 2016

Juju Lithuania sprint recap

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Last month the Juju design team was away in Lithuania, Vilnius on a working sprint. We met up with the distributed development team to help tackle technical and design issues. These sprints take away the barrier of time zones — which usually make it harder to ask engineers questions about features that are being designed. ...

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