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Dustin Kirkland: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey
by Dustin Kirkland on 21 July 2017
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...
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Ubuntu Artful Desktop July Shakedown – call for testing
by Will Cooke on 19 July 2017
We’re mid-way through the Ubuntu Artful development cycle, with the 17.10 release rapidly approaching on the horizon. Now is a great time to start exercising...
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Hiri, the desktop snap that lets you use Microsoft Exchange on Linux
by luciadecastro on 18 July 2017
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...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 14, 2017
by Will Cooke on 14 July 2017
GNOME GDM has now replaced LightDM. We’re working on the transition between display managers to make sure that users are seamlessly transitioned to the new...
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Fresh Snaps from June 2017
by David Callé on 12 July 2017
From fast and secure file sharing to Kubernetes charts management, from email clients to classic text editors for your Pi, our selection of top snaps for June...
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Deploying robotic code as a single package across dev boards
by elopio on 11 July 2017
I love playing with my prototyping boards. Here at Ubuntu we are designingthe core operating systemto support every single-board computer,and keep it safe,...
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Windows 10 loves Ubuntu
by Dimitri John Ledkov on 11 July 2017
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...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 7, 2017
by Will Cooke on 7 July 2017
GNOME We’ve been working on the migration and transition processes for users going from Unity 7 to GNOME Shell. We’ve worked on migrating favourites, the...
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User acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis CI
by elopio on 5 July 2017
Travis CI offers a great continuous integrationservice for the projects hosted in GitHub. With it you can run tests, deliverartifacts and deploy services on...
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Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges
by Iain Lane on 3 July 2017
I work at Canonical, on the desktop team. The team works on Ubuntu Desktop, publishing a release every six months containing the fruits of our efforts — or at...
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Build, test, and publish snap packages using snapcraft
by Guest on 28 June 2017
This is a guest post by Ricardo Feliciano, Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 23, 2017
by Will Cooke on 23 June 2017
GNOME We’ve migrated ubuntu-session to a new unity-session package. This means that the default session is GNOME Shell and people can install Unity 7 and its...