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Canonical | REMOTE (Americas) | Full-time We're growing the Robotics team at Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu): * Robotics Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/canonical/jobs…

Could you file a bug report here and send me a link? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-initial-setu... I'll chase it up with the responsible team.

You can update as often as you like, but that does not ensure users will get that update, nor does traditional packaging make it safe to install the update (no rollbacks, maintaine…

>IMHO, operating systems should ultimately be immutable and basically be similar to a snap. You update it as a whole and you don't modify parts of it. Absolutely agree. Ubuntu Core…

Snapcraft ( https://snapcraft.io ) | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full time The Snapcraft team at Canonical (Ubuntu) are trying to make it easy to deliver app updates to all…

The "Users by distribution" table at the bottom of the Spotify page is worth a look: https://snapcraft.io/spotify Snaps are not Ubuntu-only. You can find install instructions for m…

That is not true. You absolutely can specify a license: https://snapcraft.io/vlc

I work for Canonical, but I also share maintainership of some snaps. From an automatic email I received recently: “A scan of this snap shows that it was built with packages from th…

Canonical | Senior Software Engineer | Remote | Full time Snapcraft ( https://snapcraft.io , https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft ) makes it possible to deliver app updates to all…

Canonical | Software Engineer | Full-time | Remote Canonical’s Snapcraft ( https://snapcraft.io ) makes it possible to deliver app updates to all of Linux automatically, eliminatin…

Sincerely curious why you think a squashfs of the app contents (without any additional operating system bits) running under seccomp and apparmor is a hack? What do you think is the…

I wouldn't call the snap build process for Electron apps backwards: npm install -g electron-builder # for brevity, --save-dev works electron-builder --linux snap --x64 ls dist/*.sn…

It's packaging and delivery for Linux desktop, server, and IoT apps. As elsen mentioned, updates happen automatically and roll back if unsuccessful. Automated review covers most ca…

Canonical ( http://canonical.com ) | Developer Advocate | REMOTE | Full-time We are seeking an experienced Developer Advocate to join a small team helping developers get up and run…

Canonical | Developer Advocate | Work from home | Full-time I'm looking for an experienced Developer Advocate to join a globally-distributed team driving advocacy for Snapcraft ( h…

I've put together a snap of this. If you're on Ubuntu you can `sudo snap install seashells` then `echo hello | seashells`.

All the learning and process needed to create Debian packages has been a big motivator for us to make snap packaging simple and quick. Have a look at the Heroku CLI snap, for examp…

This is exactly right. Debs, snaps, and flatpaks will happily coexist. The upstream gets to choose which works best for them while still supporting users of all distros.

I think snaps + Debian stable could be that solution. You get the stability of Debian at the system level with the reliability of app updates from snaps. Bad updates automatically …