Ubuntu Desktop

Spectre mitigation updates available for testing in Ubuntu Proposed

by Dustin Kirkland on 17 January 2018

Canonical holds Ubuntu to the highest standards of security and quality.  This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for...

Announcing the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition 9370 with Ubuntu

by Canonical on 5 January 2018

We’re excited to see Dell announce the availability of the 7th gen XPS 13 Developer Edition (9370) which comes preloaded with Ubuntu. Canonical have been part...

Ubuntu Updates for the Meltdown / Spectre Vulnerabilities

by Dustin Kirkland on 4 January 2018

  For up-to-date patch, package, and USN links, please refer to: https://wiki.sne.bianheman.eu.org/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown   Unfortunately, you’ve...

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...

Rocket.chat achieves simplicity through snaps

by Sarah Dickinson on 11 December 2017

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,...

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: December 1, 2017

by Will Cooke on 1 December 2017

GNOME GNOME Disk Utility If you have snaps installed and open the Disks utility, your snaps appear as loop devices. We found this to be confusing and a bit...

Canonical joins GNOME Foundation Advisory Board

by Will Cooke on 1 November 2017

As you’re no doubt aware, the default Ubuntu desktop is now running GNOME Shell following the 17.10 release and so we naturally have a great deal of interest...

Latest and greatest versions of GNOME apps on YOUR desktop!

by Ken VanDine on 24 October 2017

Want to run the latest GNOME applications on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 and 17.10? Actually, not just Ubuntu, many other distributions such as Fedora, Linux Mint and...

Fresh Snaps from September 2017

by David Callé on 18 October 2017

October, it’s almost time for a new Ubuntu release! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about spending relaxing time with your computer: playing games,...

elementary on why snaps are right for their Linux distro

by Sarah Dickinson on 11 October 2017

elementary is the company behind the elementary OS Linux distribution and the associated app store. Celebrating their tenth anniversary this year, elementary...

Security Team Update: October 5, 2017

by Canonical on 5 October 2017

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security...