Desktop archives
103 posts from 2018
Trust and security in the Snap Store
By Canonical, 15 May 2018
Last Friday (11 May 2018) we learned that a snap was mining cryptocurrency in the background while the application was running. The practical implication of...
An introduction to Zenkit – now available as a snap
By Guest, 8 May 2018
This is a guest blog written by Siobhan O’Rorke of Zenkit. In October 2016, Zenkit was released as an app designed to help you ‘organise anything’, enabling...
Introducing developer notifications for snap security updates
By Canonical, 2 May 2018
For some time, we’ve wanted a mechanism to alert snap publishers to security updates which affect their snaps. All the pieces have come together and we are...
Breeze through Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver
By Will Cooke, 27 April 2018
The Bionic Beaver, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is here! It’s been a busy six months for the desktop team, and indeed for everyone working on Ubuntu. We’ve been working...
Breeze through Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver
By Will Cooke, 27 April 2018
The Bionic Beaver, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is here! It’s been a busy six months for the desktop team, and indeed for everyone working on Ubuntu. We’ve been working...
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS optimised for security, multi-cloud, containers & AI
By Canonical, 26 April 2018
26th April 2018, London, UK: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – the newest version of the most widely used Linux for workstations, cloud and IoT, is now available....
Ora as a snap: ensuring users are benefiting from the latest version
By Sarah Dickinson, 24 April 2018
Ora is a user-friendly task management service with integrated time-tracking, reports, list view, git integrations and many other features. Often referred to...
Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 13 April 2018
By Will Cooke, 13 April 2018
Wow, only two weeks to go until the Beaver is born, this cycle seems have flown by. So what’s been going on in the last couple of weeks, and what can we...
Design and Web team summary – 10 April 2018
By Anthony Dillon, 10 April 2018
MAAS squad Homepage A/B test completes The team ran an A/B test on two homepage designs. Based on Google analytics experiment data and Crazy egg scroll-map...
Growing ONLYOFFICE through snaps and the Snap Store
By Sarah Dickinson, 29 March 2018
ONLYOFFICE is a project developed by IT experts from the Latvian company Ascensio System SIA. WIth ONLYOFFICE business solutions, which are the primary...
CircleCI evangelist looks to snaps to bridge cross-distro divide
By Sarah Dickinson, 26 March 2018
CircleCI helps developers test software and deploy it quickly but at a high standard. It is a key element of many developer’s DevOps toolsets. Ricardo...
Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 23rd March 2018
By Will Cooke, 23 March 2018
Bid “bonjour” to our Bionic Beaver! Along with a sneak preview of our official Bionic mascot, it’s a short update this week as we’re all heads-down in bug...