- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- July 5th, 2017
KDE Plasma 5.11 Desktop to Have a Stable Snap Backend for Installing Snaps
Snaps integrate very well with IoT and cloud
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- July 4th, 2017
Canonical Invites Ubuntu Users to Test the LibreOffice 5.3.4 Snap on Their OS
It's available for 64-bit and ARMhf architectures only
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- June 27th, 2017
Ubuntu Core Now Officially Supported for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 (CM3)
Manufacturers can now produce fully-featured devices
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- June 24th, 2017
Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.32 to Support ROS Lunar in the Catkin Plugin
Introduces cross-compilation support in the Rust plugin
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- June 18th, 2017
Canonical Updates Snapcraft on Ubuntu with Support for Resuming Snap Downloads
Snapcraft 2.31 is now available for all supported releases
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- June 15th, 2017
Ubuntu's Snapd Daemon Now Works Properly on Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi Zero
It's currently nonfunctional due to the lack of a core snap
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- May 30th, 2017
KDE Plasma 5.10 Officially Released, Folder View Is Now the New Default Desktop
Flatpak and Snappy integration landed in Plasma Discover
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- May 23rd, 2017
Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.30 Snappy Packaging Tool for Ubuntu Linux OSes
It adds support for 7-zip files, many improvements
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- May 12th, 2017
KDE Plasma 5.10 Will Let You Install Snaps and Flatpaks, Support GNOME's ODRS
The Beta will be available for public testing this Monday
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- May 11th, 2017
You Can Now Install the Atom Hackable Text Editor as a Snap on Ubuntu Linux
Users can always have access to the latest Atom version
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- May 3rd, 2017
Canonical Developer Works on Bringing Snap Support to Raspberry Pi's Raspbian
The Snapd daemon can now be installed on Raspbian
- Linux & Opensource Blog
- By Marius Nestor
- April 28th, 2017
Canonical Releases Snapd 2.25 Snappy Daemon for Ubuntu Linux, Here Is What's New
Improves aliases implementation and channels support
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- April 11th, 2017
Canonical's Snappy Team Releases Snapd 2.24 with Many Cross-Distro Improvements
Multiple interfaces received updates, news ones added
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- April 4th, 2017
Canonical Releases Snapd 2.23.6 Snappy Daemon for Ubuntu 16.10, 16.04, and 14.04
A maintenance update that improves various components
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- March 24th, 2017
Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.28 Snap Creator Tool with over 50 Improvements
It's available now in the Ubuntu 17.04 repositories
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- March 7th, 2017
Canonical Releases Snapd 2.23 Snappy Daemon with GalliumOS & Linux Mint Support
Several new interfaces have been added in this release
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- February 17th, 2017
Canonical Outs Snapcraft 2.27 Snap Creator Tool for Ubuntu 16.10 & Ubuntu 16.04
The release also includes classic confinement improvements