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Fresh Snaps from June 2017

by David Callé on 12 July 2017

From fast and secure file sharing to Kubernetes charts management, from email clients to classic text editors for your Pi, our selection of top snaps for June...

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Deploying robotic code as a single package across dev boards

by elopio on 11 July 2017

I love playing with my prototyping boards. Here at Ubuntu we are designingthe core operating systemto support every single-board computer,and keep it safe,...

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Windows 10 loves Ubuntu

by Dimitri John Ledkov on 11 July 2017

Ubuntu 16.04 is now available as an app from the Windows Store for users running Windows Insider builds. The newly improved app is created by Canonical in...

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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 7, 2017

by Will Cooke on 7 July 2017

  GNOME We’ve been working on the migration and transition processes for users going from Unity 7 to GNOME Shell. We’ve worked on migrating favourites, the...

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User acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis CI

by elopio on 5 July 2017

Travis CI offers a great continuous integrationservice for the projects hosted in GitHub. With it you can run tests, deliverartifacts and deploy services on...

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Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges

by Iain Lane on 3 July 2017

I work at Canonical, on the desktop team. The team works on Ubuntu Desktop, publishing a release every six months containing the fruits of our efforts — or at...

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Build, test, and publish snap packages using snapcraft

by Guest on 28 June 2017

This is a guest post by Ricardo Feliciano, Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 23, 2017

by Will Cooke on 23 June 2017

GNOME We’ve migrated ubuntu-session to a new unity-session package. This means that the default session is GNOME Shell and people can install Unity 7 and its...

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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 16, 2017

by Will Cooke on 16 June 2017

GNOME Further theme fixes have been made in Artful to get GNOME Shell and Ambiance looking just right. Network Manager is updated to 1.8. It is currently...

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Gitter and Mattermost: two desktop apps for your future chat platform

by David Callé on 15 June 2017

In the hunt for the perfect communication platform or protocol, a lot of companies are experimenting, which can lead to some confusion as not everyone is...