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UbuCon Europe: 27th, 28th, 29th of April 2018 in Gijón/Xixón, Spain
by Canonical on 14 December 2017
The next Ubucon Europe will take place at the Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos in Gijón/Xixón (Asturias, Spain), the 27th, 28th & 29th of April 2018. The Antiguo...
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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,...
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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...
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Announcing snapcraft 2.35
by Sergio Schvezov on 22 November 2017
The snapcraft team is pleased to announce that version 2.35 has been released. Contributions This release saw some excellent contributions from outside the...
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How to turn your website into a desktop app
by David Callé on 15 November 2017
Turning your website into a desktop integrated app is a relatively simple thing to do, but distributing it as such and making it noticeable in app stores is...
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Dell Precision Machines Available With Ubuntu Pre-Installed
by Canonical on 14 November 2017
Looking for a new PC with Ubuntu pre-installed? We thought we’d run through the latest Dell Precision computers that come pre-installed with Ubuntu. These are...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly, Nov 3rd & 10th: Bionic daily images available
by Will Cooke on 10 November 2017
The big news this week is the availability of Bionic daily ISOs. As always, we’re beavering away on the desktop: GNOME We’ve started a conversation on the...
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Fresh Snaps from October 2017
by David Callé on 7 November 2017
Hot on the heels of the Ubuntu 17.10 release, the snap store has seen some great additions for musicians with MuseScore, for developers with IntelliJ IDEA,...
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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...
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MAAS 2.3.0 beta 3 released!
by Canonical on 31 October 2017
Hello MAASters!I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.3.0 Beta 3 has now been released and it is currently available in PPA and as a snap.PPA AvailabilityFor those...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: GNOME Fixes & New Snaps
by Will Cooke on 27 October 2017
I’ll be starting the weekly round-up posts again now that the release is out and 18.04 is getting under way. At this early stage in the development cycle...