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luciadecastro
12 September 2017

Wavebox snap: A central hub for Gmail, Outlook, Trello, Slack and more

Desktop Article

Wavebox is an app that brings together most of the tools you’ll need on an everyday basis, like Gmail, Outlook, Office 365, Slack and more, and is now available as a snap! We had a chat with Thomas Beverley, Co-founder & Software Engineer at Wavebox, to understand how was their experience with snapping their application. ...


David Callé
11 September 2017

Fresh Snaps from August 2017

Desktop Article

September, back to school! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about productivity and collaboration tools. Very competent web browser? Check. Messaging clients? Check. PDF and Video files editing? Check. Hacking your router to host apps and Minepocket server management? Well, September also has weekends – check! If the term “snaps” ...


Stéphane Graber
11 September 2017

LXD: Weekly status #14

Cloud and server Article

Introduction The highlight for this week is the release of LXC 2.1 which is the result of a year and a half of development making up 1528 commits by 96 contributors! We’ve also been working on LXD performance testing with lxd-benchmark getting expanded to record more data points and log in a format that we can generate ...


Will Cooke
8 September 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 8, 2017

Desktop Article

GNOME GNOME Shell 3.25.91 is now in Artful in preparation for the move to 3.26 before release. We’re adding notification badge support to the Dock extension. This branch has been proposed to the upstream project and is awaiting review. We’ve packaged the KStatusNotifier extension to provide support for indicators. This will provide suppor ...


Robin Winslow
8 September 2017

Command-line usability: A terminal user’s thought process

Ubuntu User Experience

I’ve been thinking about the usability of command-line terminals a lot recently. Command-line interfaces remain mystifying to many people. Usability hobbyists seem as inclined to ask why the terminal exists, as how to optimise it. I’ve also had it suggested to me that the discipline of User Experience (UX) has little to offer the Command- ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 September 2017

Kubernetes for the Enterprise: 1, 2, 3, Go!

Cloud and server Article

Sign up for our new webinar to learn about the private Kubernetes implementation packages available from Canonical, including the recently release Kubernetes Explorer and Kubernetes Discoverer. ...


Canonical
7 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 7, 2017

Cloud and server Article

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 Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com During the last week ...


Sergio Schvezov
7 September 2017

Week 35 of 2017 in snapcraft

Desktop Article

This article originally appeared in Snapcraft Forums Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from 27 August until 02 September of 2017. Highlights Added support for new ROS content-sharing use-cases that previously failed to build Revamped remote container mounting to not require an SSH connection Added a c ...


Tim Van Steenburgh
7 September 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes: Development Summary (9/7/2017)

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Tim Van Steenburgh’s blog September 1st concluded our most recent development sprint on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). Here are some highlights: Canal Bundle Our new Canal bundle is available for testing. We’ve been fixing a few issuesand expect to release the Canal bundle to the stable ...


Canonical
7 September 2017

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 2

Internet of Things Article

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services (Part 1) Tracks With tracks, developers can give a group of users the ability to stay on a robust, proven version of their software, even when a newer stable version has been released. Using a track can be useful if the newer stable version has some ...


Anthony Dillon
6 September 2017

Webteam development summary

Ubuntu Development

Iteration 6 dating between 14th to the 25th of August This iteration saw a lot of work on tutorials.ubuntu.com and on the migration of design.ubuntu.com from WordPress to a fresh new Jekyll site project. Continued research and planning into the new snapcraft.io site, with some beginnings of the development framework. Vanilla Framework put ...