Blog posts tagged "snapcraft.io"
In the world of IoT, it is crucial to be fully in control of your devices. Over-the-air (OTA) updates are essential for a distributed set of devices. This...
The life of an application can roughly be divided into two: everything that happens before it goes live – building, packaging, publication – and then,...
Snaps are self-contained applications designed with ease of use, security and portability in mind. They bundle their necessary dependencies, so they can work...
Snaps are confined, self-contained applications, designed with portability and security in mind. By default, strictly confined snaps run in isolation, with...
Snaps are self-contained applications, isolated from the underlying operating systems by several layers of confinement. This mechanism introduces security...
Sometimes, applications may not run well, or they could even crash. When such issues occur, it is useful to have a consistent, reproducible method of...
A couple of weeks ago, we published an article about Ubuntu 16.04 entering Extended Security Maintenance (ESM), and the implications of this change for snap...
Open the Snap Store, click on any application you like – you will now see a page full of useful tidbits – screenshots and videos, application description,...
Broadly speaking, the Linux community can be divided into two camps – those who upgrade their operating systems in-vivo, whenever there is an option to do so...
Snaps are a way to package your software so it is easy to install on Linux. If you’re a snap developer already or you’re a part of the Linux community, and...
Snaps are several things, all at once. They are confined, standalone Linux applications that bundle all their necessary dependencies, which means they do not...
At the end of April, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will reach the end of its five years of mainstream support and enter the Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) phase. If...
Snapcraft is our delightful tool for building snaps. It’s not the only way to build them, but it’s certainly a popular one. A benefit of Snapcraft is that...
The year is 1989. I bought a computer game called F-16: Combat Pilot, a flight simulator featuring free-flight, five types of single-player missions, a full...
Virtualisation plays a huge role in almost all of today’s fastest-growing software-based industries. It is the foundation for most cloud computing, the go-to...
Everyone loves a clean, tidy home (hopefully). This also includes your other home – slash home, the Linux home directory. Disk cleanup and management...