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"snapcraft.io"

Alan Pope
15 August 2019

8 Ways Snaps are Different

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Depending on the audience, the discussion of software packaging elicits very different responses. Users generally don’t care how software is packaged, so long as it works. Developers typically want software packaging as a task to not burden them and just magically happen. Snaps aren’t magic, but aim to achieve both ease of maintenance and ...

Sarah Dickinson
12 August 2019

Julia and Jeff discover the ease of snaps at the Snapcraft Summit

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Julia is an open source, high-level, general-purpose, dynamic programming language designed for numerical analysis and computational science, launched in 2012. It solves the “two language” problem: developers can use Julia for both computational and interactive work, instead of needing to work with two different languages which can often ...

Igor Ljubuncic
8 August 2019

Slow snap? Trace-exec to the rescue!

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Slow applications are never fun. But not knowing why an application is not behaving correctly can be even more frustrating. A well-designed system that can diagnose performance or startup issues and inform the user about the problem goes a long way toward mitigating the frustration, and may even help resolve the root cause altogether. Bac ...

Canonical
31 July 2019

Digital signage platform Xibo launches as a snap

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

The open source digital signage platform, Xibo, is now available as a snap – the universal Linux app packaging format. Xibo provides a comprehensive suite of digital signage products, with its Content Management System (CMS) at the heart of this experience-led offering. Xibo for Linux is completely free and natively built for the Xibo CMS ...

Alex Cattle
30 July 2019

A shift to the Linux app store experience

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Linux software developers historically have faced a number of challenges including fragmentation, distribution complexity and a lack of metrics into the success of their applications. Once an application is built, the journey does not end there – for companies and individual developers creating apps, thought needs to be given to promoting ...

Sarah Dickinson
29 July 2019

Manjaro, snaps and the spirit of collaboration

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Linux distributions are all about freedom of choice for the end-user. However, there is a natural element of competition too. So, why did Philip Müller, one of the founders of the Manjaro distribution, come to the 2019 Snapcraft Summit in Montreal? There are several good reasons, according to Philip. First, he says, “Manjaro and Ubuntu ...

Igor Ljubuncic
25 July 2019

Handy productivity software for your home and office

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Discovery is an integral part of any store experience. Sometimes, you know what you want and need, and the experience can be short and transactional. On other occasions, you want to explore, and search for new things. This applies equally to shopping malls as it does to software. In this article, we would like to ...

Sarah Dickinson
23 July 2019

Community Snapcrafter on MicroK8s, summits and the evolving nature of snaps

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

In January 2018, Dani Llewellyn joined her first Snapcraft Summit in Seattle in her role as a community Snapcrafter. At that event, we discussed her views on everything snap related from most requested snaps, new feature requests and popular discussion topics. Since then, snaps has grown across every metric and seen numerous new high prof ...

Sarah Dickinson
18 July 2019

CMake leverages the Snapcraft Summit with Travis CI to build snaps

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. It is used to control the software compilation process and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in any compiler environment.  While some users of CMake want to stay up to date with the latest release, others want ...

Igor Ljubuncic
18 July 2019

Handy snapcraft features: Remote build

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

As you probably know, there are many ways you can build snaps: locally using snapcraft, with CI systems like Travis, through Launchpad, and also via the free online Snapcraft Build Service. Now, a new preview feature called Remote build also allows you to build snaps for multiple architectures directly from the command line. This has ...

Sarah Dickinson
15 July 2019

Octave turns to snaps to reduce dependency on Linux distribution maintainers

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Octave is a numerical computing environment largely compatible with MATLAB. As free software, Octave runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD, and Windows. At the 2019 Snapcraft Summit, Mike Miller and Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso of the Octave team worked on creating an Octave snap in stable and beta versions for the Snap Store.  As Mike and Jordi ...

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