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• A technical comparison between snaps and debs

  By Igor Ljubuncic on 29 August 2019

  How are snaps different from debs? This is a common question that comes up in technical discussions in the Linux community, especially…

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• Useful security software from the Snap Store

  By Igor Ljubuncic on 22 August 2019

  Overall, most Linux distributions offer sane, reasonable defaults that balance security and functionality quite well. However, most of the…

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• Jupyter looks to distro-agnostic packaging for the democratisation of installation

  By Sarah Dickinson on 21 August 2019

  When users of your application range from high school students to expert data scientists, it’s often wise to avoid any assumptions…

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• How to integrate Ubuntu with Active Directory

  By Alex Cattle on 20 August 2019

  Ubiquitous use of Microsoft tools coupled with increasing popularity of open source Linux software for enterprise presents new…

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• Julia and Jeff discover the ease of snaps at the Snapcraft Summit

  By Sarah Dickinson on 12 August 2019

  Julia is an open source, high-level, general-purpose, dynamic programming language designed for numerical analysis and computational…

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• Enhanced Livepatch desktop integration available with Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

  By Canonical on 9 August 2019

  Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS has just been released. For the Desktop, newer stable versions of GNOME components have been included, as well as a new…

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