Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Canonical has a plan, and it involves Snappy. What is Snappy? At the moment, Snappy comes in one flavor─Snappy Core─a ...

Ubuntu is about to undergo a dramatic overhaul. No, I don’t mean the huge shift to a converged Unity 8 desktop with the Mir display server, although that’s also coming. Ubuntu is going to move past ...

As of Canonical’s announcement, Snaps already work on Arch, Debian, and Fedora, as well as the Ubuntu-based Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu systems ...

How to install Snap packages on Ubuntu 16.04 Your email has been sent Snappy packages are all the rage. But what can you do with them? How can you install them? Jack ...

When Canonical launched Ubuntu 16.04 in April, one of the biggest changes was support for a new way to install applications. But snaps aren’t just for Ubuntu anymore. Canonical has announced that it’s ...

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VS Code's official Snap package on Linux has a bug first reported in 2024 that still hasn't been fixed and is gobbling up ...

With Ubuntu, like any operating system, obsolete or unnecessary files are not automatically destroyed. However it is possible to remove them and to save space using packages. When you download and ...

Debian and Ubuntu are moving to update all C++ packages with GCC5, which was released in April. GCC stands for Gnu Compiler Collection, and it is used to convert source code to executable code and ...