Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps

After repeatedly suffering issues with scam apps making it onto the Snap Store, Canonical maker of Ubuntu Linux have now decided to manually look over submissions.

Ubuntu 24.04 increases vm.max_map_count for smoother Linux gaming

At last! Users from Ubuntu 24.04 onwards that's scheduled to release on April 25th should hopefully see a smoother Linux gaming experience.

Manual review of all new snap name registrations

Over the recent weeks, the Snap Store has been under attack by various publishers attempting to upload malicious crypto-wallet snaps.

Guess Who's Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet Snap!

Previously… Back in February, I blogged about a series of scam Bitcoin wallet apps that were published in the Canonical Snap store, including one which netted a scammer $490K of some poor rube’s coin.

Knock knock. Who's there? More scam apps on Canonical's Snap Store!

No this isn't a joke, sadly. Canonical once again have a problem with scam apps appearing on the Snap Store, which is becoming a repeating problem.

Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app

Not the first time this has happened, but recently the Snap store from Canonical hosted a scam bitcoin app that claimed to be "Exodus wallet" that caused a user to lose money.

Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended

Canonical announced some time ago their Steam Snap which was promoted as stable with Ubuntu 23.04, as they continue to push their own packaging format with Snap but it seems this has been causing problems for Valve.

Cross-distribution support improvements coming for Canonical's Snap packages

Well, 2024 should be interesting for Linux packaging! While many distributions use different packaging formats like deb, rpm and others there's also Flatpak for cross-distro support.

Marketing for Open Source: How, Where, & Why

Ubuntu Summit 2023 Day 2 (04 November 2023)Marketing for Open Source: How, Where, & Why by Michael Tunnell https://www.youtube.com/@michael_tunnellMarketing ...

Canonical detail a whole lot of Steam Snap improvements

While most people will be using a normal package for Steam on Linux or the Flatpak, Canonical continue pushing their own Snap packages and one that's needed a lot of work is Steam.

Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 now available again after the recent hostile translation

Good news for those looking to download Ubuntu Desktop 23.10, as the recent issue involving a hostile translation has been solved and so the downloads are up again.

Ubuntu Summit 2023

The Ubuntu SummitUbuntu Summit is an event focused on the Linux and Open Source ecosystem, beyond Ubuntu itself. Representatives of outstanding projects will demonstrate how their work is changing the future of technology as we know it.

Ubuntu 23.10 download got pulled down due to a malicious translation

Canonical announced shortly after the release of Ubuntu 23.10 that the official downloads were pulled, as there was hate speech identified from a malicious contributor in some of their translations.

Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 is bristling with new features, not all of them visible at first glance. Join us on a deep dive of the highlights. […]

Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' is out now

The latest upgrade to Ubuntu and the many flavours like Kubuntu and Xubuntu is out now with Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur". Are you ready to update?

Ubuntu Summit 2023 will have some fun Linux gaming talks

The next Ubuntu Summit is approaching on November 3rd - 5th in Riga, Latvia and this year there's a good few interesting Linux gaming talks that you might want to keep an eye on.

Snap store from Canonical hit with malicious apps

Canonical are currently dealing with a security incident with the Snap store, after users noticed multiple fake apps were uploaded so temporary limits have been put in place.

Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' Beta now available

Here's your chance to test and get in early on the next Ubuntu release with Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' Beta now available across standard Ubuntu, Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio…

Canonical give some thoughts on the future of Ubuntu Desktop

Ubuntu is one of the top most used Linux distributions on the desktop and Canonical, the company behind it, has a new blog post up giving some thoughts on the future of Ubuntu Desktop.

The High-Performance Computing (HPC) community team is the latest engineering team to join the Ubuntu project. […]

Canonical planning an immutable desktop version of Ubuntu

This could be very interesting and exciting. Canonical has confirmed they're working towards an immutable version of Ubuntu for desktop users based on all the work they've done with Ubuntu Core.

Ubuntu 23.04 is out now with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam Snap

Canonical has today released Ubuntu 23.04, their latest short-term new-feature release (it's not an LTS) that will be supported until January 2024.

Ubuntu 23.04 'Lunar Lobster' Beta released

The next major update for Ubuntu Linux is about to arrive, with the Beta of Ubuntu 23.04 'Lunar Lobster' now available.

Canonical want help testing their Steam snap package for Ubuntu

Do you game on Ubuntu or one of their flavours like Kubuntu or Xubuntu? Canonical want your help in further testing of the Steam snap.

Ubuntu flavours to drop Flatpak by default and stick to Snaps

Canonical has announced a change in the packaging defaults for the various "flavours" like Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie and so on to exclude Flatpak and stick with Snap.

Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak

Flatpak will no longer feature in the default install of Ubuntu's 8 official flavors, with devs agreeing to only support deb and snap software OOTB.

First Version of Vanilla OS is Available to Download - OMG! Linux

The Linux distro scene just got A LOT more interesting thanks to the first stable release of Vanilla OS. Not familiar with Vanilla OS? You're not alone.

Ubuntu Terminal Ads Aren't That Bad?

Over the years Ubuntu has been back in the news multiple times for including "ads" in there terminal through the MOTD, and apt but the recently drama has lef...

Ubuntu 22.10 Review: Is Kinetic Kudu Really This Good?

In this video I look at the new Ubuntu 22.10. I take a break from Arch and Fedora to check out what Ubuntu has been up to over the last few years. With Pipew...

301: Ubuntu 22.10 Review from the Gurus of Kudu

This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re going to discuss our experience with the latest Ubuntu 22.10. We distro hopped and we’re going to give you th...

Forced Auto Updating Linux Snaps Coming To An End!

For the entire life of the ubuntu snap packages they have forced users to do automatic updating but finally Canonical has decided to fix them and make them a...

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