Blog posts tagged "Snaps"

Introducing etrace – a multi-purpose application profiling tool

These days, the internal workings of Linux applications involve many different moving parts. Sometimes, it can be rather difficult to debug them when things...

Snap speed improvements with new compression algorithm!

Security and performance are often mutually exclusive concepts. A great user experience is one that manages to blend the two in a way that does not compromise...

The Windows Calculator on Linux with Uno Platform

The good folks in the Uno Platform community have ported the open-source Windows Calculator to Linux. And they’ve done it quicker than Microsoft could bring...

How to make snaps and configuration management tools work together

In environments with large numbers of client machines, configuration management tools are often used to simplify and standardize the target state of each host...

Security corner: snap interface & snap connections

One of the defining features of snaps is their strong security. Snaps are designed to run isolated from the underlying system, with granular control and...

Snapcraft corner: Staying on track

Snapcraft channels and, consequently, tracks are an important, highly useful element of the snap ecosystem. Tracks enable snap developers to publish multiple...

Develop Uno Platform projects on Linux with Visual Studio

Uno Platform is bringing their support to Linux. Uno allows you to build native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML from a single code...

Complex problems, clever solutions – unique containers and virtualization snaps

Snaps come in many shapes and forms: security tools, productivity apps, games, handy utilities, video editing software, and more. Often, most snap package a...

How to manage snap updates

Updates are an integral part of the software lifecycle. Quite often, they bring improvements, vital security patches – and sometimes, unfortunately, bugs,...

Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter

By Chris Sells (Google) & Ken VanDine (Canonical) Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that...

A blast from the past – Shutter

The wheel of software turns, and apps come and go. But the end of development does not always mean the end of usefulness. Sometimes, programs stubbornly...

How to preserve old software – with snaps

If you have been using computers for some time now, you probably have fond memories of this or that piece of software from the past, an application or a game...

How Domotz streamlined provisioning of IoT devices

Learn how Ubuntu Core and snaps gives Domotz a competitive advantage As the number of IoT devices scale, the challenges of provisioning and keeping them up to...

Bosch Rexroth adopts Ubuntu Core and snaps for app-based ctrlX AUTOMATION platform

19th February 2020 – Canonical today announced that Bosch Rexroth has selected Ubuntu Core for their app-based platform ctrlX AUTOMATION. ctrlX AUTOMATION...

How to upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu – Desktop tour and applications

This is the third and the last guide in this series. In the first installment, we learned about considerations for an update from Windows 7 to Ubuntu, key...

Keep enterprise ROS robots up-to-date with snaps

When a robot is not up-to-date, it becomes about as useful as an expensive paperweight, or companies have to burn money to get them back online. Yet when...