Blog posts tagged "snapcraft.io"

Firefox snap performance Part 3: significant startup improvements

In Part 3 of our Firefox snap performance series we cover two significant performance improvements that have just landed for all users.

Behind open DORS – Conference organizers share their thoughts on Canonical, Ubuntu, snaps, and open-source

A Linux conference almost as old as Linux itself. In mid-May, DORS/CLUC hosted its 29th event at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in...

Star Developers are here!

We are happy to announce that the newest community feature of the Snap Store is here: Star Developers! Background  In the Snap Store, we have a fantastic...

The new classic confinement in snaps – Even the classics need a change

As part of their fundamental, security-driven design, snaps are meant to run isolated from the underlying system. In most cases, the idea works well, and...

How are we improving Firefox Snap performance? Part 2

Improving Firefox snap performance is one of our top priorities. In part 2 of this series, we give an update on our progress and latest fixes.

Master IoT software updates with validation sets on Ubuntu Core 22

If you are packaging your IoT applications as snaps or containers, you are aware of the benefits of bundling an application with its dependencies. Publishing...

How are we improving Firefox snap performance? Part 1

Improving Firefox snap performance is one of our top priorities. Learn more about our recent changes, ongoing investigations and how to run your own benchmarks.

Bring your multi-platform apps to Linux desktop with Flutter 3

Flutter 3 features production-ready Linux desktop support for the first time as part of Canonical’s ongoing partnership with the Flutter team.

Snapping PhotoNoteBook: Lessons from the kitchen table, or: How an Android app got converted to a Linux snap

This article was written by Alan Watson, with only small cosmetic changes from me. Having stumbled upon PhotoNoteBook, I asked Alan to write a guest blog post...

Linux Application Summit 2022 – And there we were all in one place …

In the last two days of April, the small, picturesque town of Rovereto in northern Italy was the location of this year’s Linux Application Summit (LAS). After...

Private shared memory support for snaps

At first glance, the title of this article may sound like an oxymoron. However, what it highlights is the introduction of a rather useful feature that will...

KDE snaps performance revving up

Speed, or rather, responsiveness is an essential part of the software usage experience. This applies to every technology and domain, snaps included. Indeed,...

Three ways to package your Electron apps as snaps

Software comes in many shapes and forms. One of the popular cross-platform, cross-architecture frameworks for building and distributing applications in...

How Snapcraft helps developers map out their application dependencies and efficiently build snaps

One of the core concepts of snaps is cross-distro compatibility. Developers can build their snaps once, and they should run well on more than 40 different...

Let’s build a snap together – a complex snapcraft.yaml walkthrough

It has been a while since we talked about how to build snaps. In the past, we went through a number of detailed examples, focused on different programming...

The Future of Snapcraft

System hysteresis, when applied to software, can roughly be defined as an overall lag between desired implementation of code and actual implementation of said...