Snaps
Desktop
Vectr: a fresh take on vector graphics edition on Linux
by David Callé on 13 June 2017
There is new desktop app available in the Snap store: Vectr. A free vector graphics editor for the Web and the Linux desktop Following the Inkscape snap,...
Internet of Things
Amazon Greengrass launches as a snap on Ubuntu
by Canonical on 13 June 2017
Last week, Amazon launched Greengrass, their new IoT platform allowing developers to create intelligent edge software. Amazon is collaborating with a variety...
Cloud and server
Build.snapcraft.io gets your code ready to distribute in minutes
by Thibaut Rouffineau on 30 May 2017
The public beta release of build.snapcraft.io is now open! build.snapcraft.io is an easy and free to use platform for publishing your software to the tens of...
Desktop
Visual Studio Code is now available as a snap on Ubuntu
by David Callé on 19 May 2017
There is a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Visual Studio Code. A versatile and open source code editor Launched in 2015 by Microsoft, Visual Studio Code...
Desktop
Simplenote gives a new life to your notes
by David Callé on 17 May 2017
There’s a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Simplenote. Write in Markdown, sync, tag, collaborate and publish If you haven’t tried it yet, Simplenote brings...
Internet of Things
Ubuntu ranked as 2nd most used IoT OS by Eclipse Foundation survey
by Sarah Dickinson on 17 May 2017
Last week we posted a blog on programming languages following the Eclipse Foundation 2017 IoT survey results. This week we look at the findings from a...
Desktop
Atom is now available as a snap for Ubuntu
by David Callé on 11 May 2017
There’s a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Atom. The hackable editor, backed by GitHub Launched in 2014, Atom has been rapidly adopted by a large community...
Internet of Things
Why language choices can be irrelevant when choosing the right IoT OS
by Sarah Dickinson on 10 May 2017
This is the first in a series of two blogs exploring the finding from the latest Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. A couple of months ago we posted a...
Desktop
Discord is now available as a snap for Ubuntu and other distributions
by David Callé on 4 May 2017
There’s a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Discord. Ever heard of Discord? Within 1.5 years of its launch Discord has become an almost mandatory tool for...
Internet of Things
ROS production: obtaining confined access to the Turtlebot [4/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 27 April 2017
This is the fourth blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a snap of our prototype, and released it into the store. In...
Canonical announcements
Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities
by Canonical on 13 April 2017
Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and...