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Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 2, 2018
by Will Cooke on 2 February 2018
GNOME As you might have already read, we’ve taken the decision to ship Xorg by default in Bionic 18.04 LTS. The Wayland session will still be available as an...
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Snapcraft Summit summary – day 3
by Kyle Fazzari on 2 February 2018
The third day of the Snapcraft Summit here in Seattle saw all the developers reconvene and really get down to work, and ROSHub came by in the afternoon with...
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Skype now available as a snap for Linux users
by Canonical on 1 February 2018
Skype snap widens availability in the Linux community with easy install and automatic updates London, UK – 1st February 2018 – Canonical, the company behind...
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Snapcraft Summit summary – day 2
by Kyle Fazzari on 1 February 2018
The second day of Snapcraft Summits tend to be particularly productive as all the participants get more familiar with each other, and this one is no...
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Snapcraft Summit summary – day 1
by Alan Pope on 1 February 2018
The first day of the Snapcraft Summit in Seattle kicked off with a simple round of introductions and each participant voicing their plans for the week. People...
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Plex joins Snapcraft Summit to advance snap learnings
by Sarah Dickinson on 31 January 2018
Plex is the leading streaming platform for personal media collections, also offering over-the-air Live TV and DVR capabilities, and curated news from over 200...
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Tutorial: Install Ubuntu on a Chromebook
by David Callé on 30 January 2018
Chromebooks have gained popularity as relatively inexpensive web-centric laptops. They give access to web-based and native applications through the Chrome...
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A peek at the Snapcraft Summit
by Sergio Schvezov on 26 January 2018
The Snapcraft Summit, taking place in Seattle from January 29th to February 2nd, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon being attended by major...
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LXD: five easy pieces
by Michael Iatrou on 26 January 2018
Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants....
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Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS to use Xorg by default
by Will Cooke on 26 January 2018
Bionic Beaver, the codename for the next Ubuntu LTS release, is due in April 2018 and will ship with both the traditional Xorg graphics stack as well as the...
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Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu: What you need to know
by Christian Reis on 24 January 2018
As details of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities1 have become clearer a number of statements have been published by the multiple vendors affected;...
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Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018
by Will Cooke on 22 January 2018
Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks: GNOME We’ve been working on a patch for udisks to hide snaps from applications...