Blog posts tagged "snapcraft.io"
Technology is a medium that enables us to achieve things in life, ideally in a pleasant way. In the software world, operating systems, programming languages...
Snaps are designed to be self-contained packages of binaries, libraries and other assets. A snap might end up being quite bulky if the primary application it...
Text editors are a curious product. On one hand, they are simple, no-nonsense digital pads for taking notes, without any embellishments or visual styling. On...
Branches are an under-used but important feature of the Snap Store publishing capabilities. Indeed as I’m writing this post, I’ve never had a need to use the...
Alongside performance, theming is one of the primary concerns for desktop snap users. People expect applications bundled inside snaps to look and behave just...
Everyone wants fast applications. Recently, we provided a mechanism to make snap applications launch faster by using the LZO format. We introduced this change...
I’m celebrating nine years at Canonical, and coming up on 15 years since I started contributing to Ubuntu in the community. It’s been quite the ride, helping...
The world of software is a vast and complex one, often too difficult to easily assess by human intuition alone. Which is why detailed and accurate...
Back in mid-2019, we wrote a blog post detailing and comparing the most popular snaps across multiple distributions – Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora,...
In October, we shared a blog post detailing significant snap startup time improvements due to the use of a new compression algorithm. In that article, we...
These days, the internal workings of Linux applications involve many different moving parts. Sometimes, it can be rather difficult to debug them when things...
Security and performance are often mutually exclusive concepts. A great user experience is one that manages to blend the two in a way that does not compromise...
The good folks in the Uno Platform community have ported the open-source Windows Calculator to Linux. And they’ve done it quicker than Microsoft could bring...
In environments with large numbers of client machines, configuration management tools are often used to simplify and standardize the target state of each host...
The Snap Store has been designed to enable upstream developers and enthusiastic community contributors to publish snaps. As with most Linux packaging...
If you’re a snap developer, you know that snap development is terribly easy. Or rather complex and difficult. Depending on your application code and...