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by evand 8y ago
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/1535166 * Robotics Security
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Fx, a JSON manipulation command line tool(medium.com)
2 points by evand 8y ago|0 comments
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by evand 8y ago
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.
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by evand 8y ago
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, maintainer scripts run as root and have full access to the filesystem
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by evand 8y ago
>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 is trying to achieve something like this: https:&#
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by evand 8y ago
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 Linux-based cloud, IoT, and desktop systems safel
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Canonical finds hidden crypto-miners in the Linux Snap app store(thenextweb.com)
1 points by evand 8y ago|0 comments
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by evand 8y ago
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 many distros here: https:/&#
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by evand 8y ago
That is not true. You absolutely can specify a license: https://snapcraft.io/vlc
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by evand 8y ago
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 the Ubuntu archive that have since received security updates.
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Installing Node.js tutorial(nodesource.com)
8 points by evand 8y ago|1 comments
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by evand 8y ago
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 of Linux automatically, elim
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Announcing a Node.js Snap for Linux(nodesource.com)
3 points by evand 8y ago|0 comments
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by evand 9y ago
Canonical | Software Engineer | Full-time | Remote Canonical’s Snapcraft ( https://snapcraft.io ) makes it possible to deliver app updates to all of Linux automatically, eliminating the long tail of supported releases and complex
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by evand 9y ago
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 ideal solution?
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by evand 9y ago
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/*.snap There's no operating system roo
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Canonical welcome Spotify as a snap for Linux users(insights.ubuntu.com)
6 points by evand 9y ago|0 comments
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by evand 9y ago
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 cases and the format is simple yaml, so you can quickly p
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by evand 9y ago
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 running with the Snapcraft platform for Linux applica
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Quintessential Guide for Building an Unforgettable First-Time User Experience(hackernoon.com)
3 points by evand 9y ago|0 comments
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by evand 9y ago
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 ( https://snapcraft.io ) and the optimised versi
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by evand 9y ago
I've put together a snap of this. If you're on Ubuntu you can `sudo snap install seashells` then `echo hello | seashells`.
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by evand 9y ago
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 example: https://github.com/heroku/cli/
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by evand 9y ago
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.
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by evand 9y ago
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 roll back, and you can subscribe to a risk level at a per-ap
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by evand 9y ago
Hi, Evan from the Snapcraft team here. We're really excited to launch https://build.snapcraft.io today. It'll automatically build and publish your software every time you push a commit to GitHub. You can then promote a
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Show HN: Snapcraft – Free builds and hosted binaries of every GitHub commit(build.snapcraft.io)
24 points by evand 9y ago|2 comments
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by evand 9y ago
This isn't a problem with snaps ( https://snapcraft.io ), which bundle their dependencies. They're also transactional: if the update fails it just rolls back to the last known-good state.
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Automatically Build and Publish Node and Electron Applications for Linux [video](pusher.com)
3 points by evand 9y ago|0 comments
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by evand 9y ago
That option to automatically install security updates is on by default in Ubuntu 16.04, by the way: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/10/dirty-cow-livepatched... Snaps were designed from the beginning to push au

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