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"Ubuntu Desktop"

Thibaut Rouffineau
10 August 2017

Fresh Snaps from July 2017

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

If you’re thinking July = holidays… think again! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about productivity. Graphic design tools, web code editor, Go IDE, JSON configuration, blockchain wallet and Openstack… Ready for an active summer? If the term “snaps” doesn’t ring a bell, they are a new way for developers to package ...

Dustin Kirkland
21 July 2017

Dustin Kirkland: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Back in March, we asked the HackerNews community, “What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?”: https://ubu.one/AskHNA passionate discussion ensued, the results of which are distilled into this post: http://ubu.one/thankHNIn fact, you can check that link, http://ubu.one/thankHN and see our progress so far this cycle.  We already have a beta ...

luciadecastro
18 July 2017

Hiri, the desktop snap that lets you use Microsoft Exchange on Linux

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Earlier this month Hiri launched a snap, making their application very easy to be used by Linux users. We talked to Dave Power, co-founder of Hiri, to understand how this journey was and the value of snaps for his business. Install from Ubuntu Store Can you tell us what is Hiri about? Hiri is a ...

Guest
12 July 2017

Robot development made easy with Husarion CORE2-ROS running Ubuntu

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

This is the first in a series of two posts by guest blogger; Dominik Nowak, CEO at Husarion. We’ve seen many breakthroughs happening in the IT industry over the last decade. Arguably the most meaningful one on the consumer side was the adoption of smartphones and mobile development. What’s the next big thing, now that ...

Dimitri John Ledkov
11 July 2017

Windows 10 loves Ubuntu

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

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 collaboration with the Microsoft WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) team as a result of the work announced at Microsoft Build 2017 Conference, after the first unveiling at Build ...

Thibaut Rouffineau
19 June 2017

Distributing KeePassXC as a snap

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

This is a guest post by Jonathan White (find him on Github) one of the developers behind keepassxc. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-iot@canonical.com . Can you tell us about KeePassXC? KeePassXC, for KeePass Cross-Platform Community Edition, is an extension of the KeePassX password manager project that ...

David Callé
15 June 2017

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

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

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 moving at the same pace: one team on IRC, another one on Slack, one on “anything but Slack, have you tried Mattermost? It’s almost like RocketChat”. Then, if a ...

Guest
14 June 2017

Project Sputnik: crazy idea to community driven developer systems

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-iot@canonical.com Five years ago, I pitched a crazy idea to an internal innovation team at Dell: what if Dell took its highest end laptop, pre-loaded Ubuntu on it, included all the needed drivers and ...

David Callé
13 June 2017

Vectr: a fresh take on vector graphics edition on Linux

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

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, there is a new vector graphics editor readily available to install. With project sharing built-in, a modern UI built with Electron and more on the roadmap (real-time collaboration, versi ...

Ken VanDine
12 June 2017

Ubuntu Desktop – GNOME Extensions poll results

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Recently, with the help from our friends at OMG! Ubuntu, we ran a poll to collect data on usefulness of some GNOME Shell extensions. We limited the poll to a select group of extensions based on popularity on https://extensions.gnome.org as well as how they changed the user experience. The poll was done with Google forms, ...

David Callé
19 May 2017

Visual Studio Code is now available as a snap on Ubuntu

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

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 has imposed itself as one of the preferred code editors in the developer community. Cross-platform (powered by Electron), it features a marketplace of more than 3000 extensions where ...

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