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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...
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Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 21 January 2018
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.myasnchisdf.eu.org/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown Unfortunately, you’ve...
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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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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update – December 15th 2017
by Will Cooke on 15 December 2017
Here’s the last newsletter for 2017, we’ll be back in the new year. On behalf of the whole Desktop Team I wish you all a happy holiday and a peaceful 2018....
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cloud-init 17.2 Released
by Joshua Powers on 15 December 2017
As announced, cloud-init 17.2 was released this week. From the announcement, some highlights include: CLI added the clean and status subcommands Support for...