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      Ubuntu will manually review Snap Store after crypto wallet scams

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 18:23 · 1 minute

    Man holding a piggy bank at his desk, with the piggy wired up with strange circuits and hardware

    Enlarge / One thing you can say about this crypto wallet: You can't confuse it for any other. (credit: Getty Images)

    The Snap Store, where containerized Snap apps are distributed for Ubuntu's Linux distribution, has been attacked for months by fake crypto wallet uploads that seek to steal users' currencies. As a result, engineers at Ubuntu's parent firm are now manually reviewing apps uploaded to the store before they are available.

    The move follows weeks of reporting by Alan Pope, a former Canonical/Ubuntu staffer on the Snapcraft team, who is still very active in the ecosystem. In February, Pope blogged about how one bitcoin investor lost nine bitcoins (about $490,000 at the time) by using an "Exodus Wallet" app from the Snap store. Exodus is a known cryptocurrency wallet, but this wallet was not from that entity. As detailed by one user wondering what happened on the Snapcraft forums , the wallet immediately transferred his entire balance to an unknown address after a 12-word recovery phrase was entered (which Exodus tells you on support pages never to do).

    Pope takes pains to note that cryptocurrency is inherently fraught with loss risk. Still, Ubuntu's App Center, which presents the Snap Store for desktop users, tagged the "Exodus" app as "Safe," and the web version of the Snap Store describes Snaps as "safe to run." While Ubuntu is describing apps as "Safe" in the sense of being an auto-updating container with runtime confinement (or "sandboxed"), a green checkmark with "Safe" next to it could be misread, especially by a newcomer to Ubuntu, Snaps, and Linux generally.

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      Canonical wants better Snap support outside Ubuntu, based on latest hires

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 8 January - 22:25

    Snap icons from the Snap store

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    Snaps, the self-contained application packages that Ubuntu has long seen as a simpler app store and a potential solution to dependency hell , could be getting better support outside Ubuntu itself, based on one recent hire and potentially more.

    As spotted by the Phoronix blog , developer Zygmunt Krynicki , who worked at Ubuntu distributor Canonical from 2012 through 2020 , posted Friday on Mastodon that he was "returning as a snap developer later this month." His main focus would be "cross-distribution support," Krynicki wrote, and "unlike in the past this will be my full time job. I'm very excited for what is ahead for snaps." He also noted, in a later reply , that he was "not coming back alone."

    Krynicki, reached Monday on Mastodon, noted that he was at a very early stage in his work. But he intended to look at the state of support across distributions, determine which long-term and short-term work to focus on, and "work on the internals and get things progressively better, even if that is not flashy."

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      Snapcraft Website Given a ‘More Modern Look’

      pubsub.blastersklan.com / omgubuntu · Friday, 30 June, 2023 - 12:53 edit

    ubuntu logo and the snapcraft logo tiledNext time you stop by the Snapcraft website you’ll notice it has a fresh new look. Canonical unveiled the changes today saying it “embarked on a project to redesign snapcraft.io and give it a more modern look”. This ‘more modern look’ is now live on the web for everybody, including you, to go gawk at. If you follow @omgubuntu on Twitter you’ll may have seen a tweet earlier the week in which I expressed slight surprise™ at the new logo. What previously said “Snapcraft” now says “Canonical Snapcraft” – which in light of those “proprietary backend” claims levelled against the format perhaps […]

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      Comment migrer de Snap à Flatpak pour se libérer de Canonical ?

      news.movim.eu / Korben · Sunday, 7 May, 2023 - 07:00 · 1 minute

    Si vous êtes sous Ubuntu, peut-être êtes vous un utilisateur compulsif de snap. Snap, vous savez, c’est ce programme qui permet de faire tourner des applications conteneurisées avec toutes leurs dépendances. C’est un format proposé par Canonical (la boite derrière Ubuntu) qui finalement, fait un peu penser aux .app de chez Apple ou aux .exe de chez Microsoft.

    Seulement, voilà, y’a pas que snap dans la vie. Y’a aussi flatpak qui reprend le même principe mais en plus ouvert, libre, communautaire.

    Vous aimeriez peut-être migrer que snap à Flatpak. Oui mais comment ?

    Et bien pour ne pas vous prendre la tête, le mieux c’est peut être de passer par Unsnap , un script qui permet justement de migrer en quelques secondes de snap vers flatpak.

    Unsnap fonctionne en deux étapes. D’abord, il génère les scripts pour effectuer la migration, ce qui vous permettra de visualiser et/ou d’éditer les scripts avant leur exécution. Puis après il lance la migration à proprement dit.

    unsnap capture

    Voici les scripts qu’il créé :

    • 00-backup – exécute la sauvegarde des snap pour chaque snap installé en cours de migration
    • 01-install-flatpak – s’il n’est pas déjà installé, installe le gestionnaire de paquets Flatpak.
    • 02-enable-flathub – s’il n’est pas activé, ajoute l’emplacement de flathub à distance dans flatpak
    • 03-install-flatpaks – installe les flatpaks équivalents pour chaque snap identifié
    • 04-remove-snaps – supprime les snap pour lesquels les flatpaks ont été installés
    • 99-remove-snapd – supprime snapd lui-même, ce qui supprimera tous les snaps

    Voici comment l’installer et le lancer :

    git clone https://github.com/popey/unsnap
    cd unsnap
    ./unsnap

    Et pour le lancer sans revérifier les scripts, vous pouvez utiliser le paramètre auto comme ceci :

    ./unsnap auto

    Pratique !

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      The easier way to install Steam on Linux gets bleeding-edge graphics support

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 21 October, 2022 - 17:35 · 1 minute

    Steam, installed from the Snap Store, looks and feels a lot like Steam. You just see this interface a bit sooner, without a bunch of tabs open to find the right dependencies.

    Enlarge / Steam, installed from the Snap Store, looks and feels a lot like Steam. You just see this interface a bit sooner, without a bunch of tabs open to find the right dependencies. (credit: Canonical / Valve)

    Installing Steam on a Linux system just got a little easier, at least if you can install a Snap package. Ubuntu-maker Canonical announced today that its Steam Snap supports "bleeding edge" Mesa graphics APIs, with more improvements coming soon.

    Snaps are self-contained packages that are easier for users to install without command lines and also contain the other programs and libraries they rely on, preventing conflicts between the versions of installed software applications (i.e. dependency hell ). They're theoretically easier to update through a store app and are sandboxed from the rest of the system. They're also not universally appreciated in the greater Linux community, as they're pushed primarily by Canonical through its Snap Store and can reduce the performance of some apps.

    Canonical worked with Steam-creator Valve to create the Steam Snap in "Early Access" in March. It bakes in the Mesa drivers and Proton and Wine wrappers needed for some Windows-via-Linux games, resolves the 32-bit/64-bit discrepancies for certain libraries, and handles the other necessary items that users would typically be pulling in via command-line and private repositories.

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      New Ubuntu Logo: Is This Our First Look?

      pubsub.do.nohost.me / OMG Ubuntu · Tuesday, 29 June, 2021 - 18:32

    A question mark in a circle Canonical is prepping a "major rebranding effort" involving Ubuntu, say the Canonical Web and Design team. They also share a very intriguing image…

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      Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo Beta Is Here: How To Update From Ubuntu 20.04, 19, 18

      pubsub.do.nohost.me / FossBytes · Friday, 2 April, 2021 - 11:24

    After all the news and waiting, Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo Beta release is finally available to download. Unlike previous Ubuntu …

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      Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps

      pubsub.do.nohost.me / OMG Ubuntu · Friday, 5 March, 2021 - 15:03

    Future Ubuntu apps made by Canonical will use Flutter, Google's open-source UI framework. We ask whether this news will help or harm the Ubuntu experience.

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      Martin Wimpress, Ubuntu Desktop Lead, is Leaving Canonical

      pubsub.do.nohost.me / OMG Ubuntu · Tuesday, 2 February, 2021 - 20:05

    Ubuntu desktop lead Martin Wimpress has announced he is leaving Canonical. Wimpress became Ubuntu desktop lead in October 2019, taking over from Will Cooke.

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