- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- March 19th, 2018
Canonical Officially Announces Mozilla's Firefox as a Snap App for Ubuntu Linux
Gives users access to test web browser's latest features
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- March 15th, 2018
Chromium and Firefox Web Browsers Are Now Installable as Snaps on Ubuntu Linux
Snaps are also compatible with other GNU/Linux distributions
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- January 18th, 2018
Slack Is Now Available as a Snap for Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros
The Snappy technologies makes its installation easier
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- December 22nd, 2017
Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.38 Tool to Improve Support for Classic Snaps
Snapd 2.30 Snappy daemon was also released recently
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- December 20th, 2017
Canonical Makes It Easier to Install Spotify for Linux on Ubuntu, Other Distros
Spotify for Linux is now available as a Snap
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- October 10th, 2017
Ubuntu MATE 17.10 to Be First Linux OS to Ship with a Snap Installed by Default
The first step towards an all-Snap Ubuntu OS
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- September 22nd, 2017
You'll Soon Be Able to Run GNOME 3.26 Apps on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS via Snaps
Canonical is working on a Platform Snap for GNOME 3.26 apps
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- September 16th, 2017
Canonical Adds Support for GNOME's JHBuild Tool to Its Snapcraft Snappy Creator
Snapcraft 2.34 is now available for download on Ubuntu
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- September 16th, 2017
Wavebox, the Powerful Email Client, Is Now Available as a Snap on Ubuntu Linux
It can also be installed on other GNU/Linux distributions
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- August 17th, 2017
Canonical Invites You to Test Out the Chromium Web Browser Snap on Ubuntu Linux
The Snap package gives you access to the latest version
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- August 13th, 2017
Canonical Outs Snapcraft 2.33 Snap Tool for Ubuntu with Bash Completion Support
This release is also installable on OS X using Brew
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- August 12th, 2017
Canonical Releases Snapd 2.27 Snappy Daemon for Ubuntu, Other Linux Distros
It's a major release that includes numerous improvements
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- August 9th, 2017
LibreOffice 5.4 Office Suite Is Now Available as Flatpak and Snap Packages
Lets Linux users deploy it on virtually any distribution
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- August 9th, 2017
Finally, Solus Operating System Is Getting Support for Ubuntu's Snap Packages
Flatpak support is already available for the Linux OS
- 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
- June 28th, 2017
Ubuntu MATE's Software Boutique Package Manager Is Getting Support for Snaps
The new version is shipping with Ubuntu MATE 17.10
- 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