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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: August 11, 2017
by Will Cooke on 11 August 2017
GUADEC The GNOME conference happened last week with good representation from Ubuntu. The spirit was good and the discussions constructive. Decisions were...
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How to sign things for Secure Boot
by Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre on 11 August 2017
Secure Boot signing The whole concept of Secure Boot requires that there exists a trust chain, from the very first thing loaded by the hardware (the firmware...
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Security Team Weekly Summary: August 10, 2017
by Canonical on 10 August 2017
The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security...
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Fresh Snaps from July 2017
by Thibaut Rouffineau on 10 August 2017
If you’re thinking July = holidays… think again! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about productivity. Graphic design tools, web code editor, Go IDE,...
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git ubuntu clone
by Canonical on 9 August 2017
This is the second post in a collaborative series between Robie Basak and myself to introduce (more formally) git ubuntuto a broader audience. There is an...
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Ubuntu Artful Desktop Fit and Finish Sprint
by Alan Pope on 8 August 2017
The Artful development cycle is full speed ahead to the Ubuntu 17.10 release in October. As you may have heard, we’re switching the default desktop from Unity...
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Stable releases, sprints, & more: A snapd recap
by Gustavo Niemeyer on 3 August 2017
The past few weeks have been very busy in the snapd world, and involved not only coding by itself but also face-to-face meet ups to discuss and detail what is...
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Upgrading your Ubuntu-on-Windows install to the app version
by Canonical on 3 August 2017
Our team and Microsoft recently released Ubuntu as a Windows app store application! If you toyed with the “bash on Ubuntu on Windows” version before and would...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 28, 2017
by Will Cooke on 28 July 2017
Here’s the latest in the world of Desktop: GNOME We’ve been looking at ways to port the feature of allowing the sound to go above 100%. This is needed because...
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ss: another way to get socket statistics
by Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre on 25 July 2017
In an earlier blog post I mentioned ss, another tool that comes with the iproute2 package and allows you to query statistics about sockets. The same thing...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 24, 2017
by Will Cooke on 24 July 2017
GNOME We’re working on adding captive portal detection to Artful. We think it would be good if there were an option in the privacy settings to enable or...
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Developing Ubuntu using git
by Robie Basak on 24 July 2017
Back in 2014, I published some information and tooling on using git for Ubuntudevelopment,even though most Ubuntu development wasn’t done with git at the...