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Howdy, Windows! A Six-part Series about Ubuntu-on-Windows for Linux.com
by Dustin Kirkland on 9 August 2016
I hope you’ll enjoy a shiny new 6-part blog series I recently published at Linux.com.The first article is a bit of back story, perhaps a behind-the-scenes...
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The App Design Guides go live (bit by bit)
by Stephanie on 2 August 2016
The App Design Guides have a new design and content refresh to better communicate the new convergent UI toolkit, and visualise best practice for designers and...
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Best converged apps
by Amrisha Prashar on 2 August 2016
In June we hosted a competition that asked developers – how well their app converges across devices? We were looking out for apps that beautifully converged...
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Ubuntu version 16.04 point 1 is out
by Will Cooke on 28 July 2016
Today we have enabled upgrade notifications from 14.04 LTS to the first point-release for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, versioned 16.04.1. The first point release for an...
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Skype for Ubuntu…available in Beta mode!
by Canonical on 13 July 2016
Super exciting news for the Ubuntu and Linux community! News has just been announced that the Beta version of a new Skype for Linux has been launched! A brand...
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Contributing to the world of snaps
by Canonical on 7 July 2016
Zygmunt Krynicki wrote about the availability of bite-sized bugs for the snapd project.I took this as an opportunity to go through the snapcraft bugs as well...
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Mycroft: The open source answer to natural language platforms
by Amrisha Prashar on 7 July 2016
We’re thrilled to be working with Mycroft, the open source answer to proprietary natural language platform. Mycroft has adopted Ubuntu Core and Snaps to...
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10 Desktop Snaps written in June
by Didier Roche on 7 July 2016
For those that may not know, Snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package...
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Announcing new snap desktop launchers
by Didier Roche on 6 July 2016
BackgroundIntegrating desktop applications with snaps has been a little bit challenging in terms of getting them looking and behaving as part of the system....
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HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!
by Dustin Kirkland on 24 June 2016
SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux packaging format of the future. And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the...
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HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!
by Dustin Kirkland on 20 June 2016
Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever...
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The Changelog Podcast — Ubuntu Everywhere
by Dustin Kirkland on 18 June 2016
I had the honor and privilege a couple of weeks ago, to participate in a recording of The Changelog, a podcast dedicated to Open Source technology.You can...