Blog posts tagged "Snaps"

The long ARM of KDE

With over 100 applications available in the Snap Store, KDE is by far the biggest publisher of snaps around. What unifies this impressive portfolio is the...

IoT Project Lifecycle: Efficient prototyping with Snaps and Ubuntu Core [Part I]

There is nothing more exciting than creating something new. Whether developing a new idea, coding a new software feature or creating a new product altogether....

Behind open DORS – Conference organizers share their thoughts on Canonical, Ubuntu, snaps, and open-source

A Linux conference almost as old as Linux itself. In mid-May, DORS/CLUC hosted its 29th event at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in...

Star Developers are here!

We are happy to announce that the newest community feature of the Snap Store is here: Star Developers! Background  In the Snap Store, we have a fantastic...

Master IoT software updates with validation sets on Ubuntu Core 22

If you are packaging your IoT applications as snaps or containers, you are aware of the benefits of bundling an application with its dependencies. Publishing...

Linux Application Summit 2022 – And there we were all in one place …

In the last two days of April, the small, picturesque town of Rovereto in northern Italy was the location of this year’s Linux Application Summit (LAS). After...

KDE snaps performance revving up

Speed, or rather, responsiveness is an essential part of the software usage experience. This applies to every technology and domain, snaps included. Indeed,...

Snapcrafters – One for all, all for one

In mid-2017, a small group of techies banded together and formed a team that would specialize in creating community-supported snaps of applications for which...

Ubuntu Frame – A picture is worth a thousand snaps

The development of graphical applications intended for use on IoT devices isn’t trivial. The complexity goes beyond the usual challenges that exist in the...

Top 10 apps to boost your productivity

Winter is rolling in (for those in the Northern Hemisphere at least). Long summer evenings are on hold for now. In these colder months, it can be difficult to...

Snapcraft offline mode – Build snaps while saving data

As part of the snap creation cycle, the Snapcraft tool creates isolated build instances inside which all of the necessary work – download of sources,...

How to make snaps faster

A great user experience is (or at least, should be) an integral part of any software that involves user interaction. On the desktop, this starts with the...

What is an IoT marketplace?

The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is expanding at a rapid rate, with the number of devices growing every year. The increase in physical hardware being...

Snap Performance Skunk Works – Ensuring speed and consistency for snaps

Snaps are used on desktop machines, servers and IoT devices. However, it’s the first group that draws the most attention and scrutiny. Due to the graphic...

How to cache snap downloads and save bandwidth

For many people, fast broadband connection and unlimited data are a reality. For others, they are not. If you have several Linux hosts in your (home)...

Top 10 apps for a fresh Linux install in 2021

Are you struggling with too much lag? Is it time for a spring clean and a fresh Linux install? Ready to upgrade to Focal Fossa (LTS) or Hirsute Hippo?...