Ubuntu Desktop

Ora as a snap: ensuring users are benefiting from the latest version

by Sarah Dickinson on 24 April 2018

Growing ONLYOFFICE through snaps and the Snap Store

by Sarah Dickinson on 29 March 2018

CircleCI evangelist looks to snaps to bridge cross-distro divide

by Sarah Dickinson on 26 March 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 23rd March 2018

by Will Cooke on 23 March 2018

Firefox Quantum snap now available on Linux-based devices

by Canonical on 19 March 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 16th March 2018

by Will Cooke on 16 March 2018

We’ve had a busy few weeks, and so this email is a roll up of what’s been going on in Desktopland.  Last week we had a team sprint in Budapest where we got to...

An intro to ONLYOFFICE – now available as a snap

by Guest on 9 March 2018

This is a guest blog written by Kseniya Fedoruk of ONLYOFFICE. Two years ago ONLYOFFICE developers released a desktop office suite that combined viewers and...

Popular programming language, Kotlin, launches as a snap for Linux

by Canonical on 7 March 2018

We are delighted to announce that the latest addition to the snap ecosystem, launching today, is Kotlin – the pragmatic programming language for JVM, Android...

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 2, 2018

by Will Cooke on 2 February 2018

GNOME As you might have already read, we’ve taken the decision to ship Xorg by default in Bionic 18.04 LTS. The Wayland session will still be available as an...

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...

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018

by Will Cooke on 22 January 2018

Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks: GNOME We’ve been working on a patch for udisks to hide snaps from applications...

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...