Ubuntu is often heralded as the king of beginner-friendly distros, and it more than lives up to its reputation. Its simple setup process, support for most consumer-oriented hardware, and strong ...

Ubuntu is transitioning another of its core system Deb packages to the sandboxed snap format, a move it says will improve security and allow for better ...

[Update, 2:00 pm ET, May 31: Ubuntu published a blog post about its Ubuntu Core desktop work after this Ars Technica post was published. Noting that Snaps “are a little famous for having some rough ...

Snap packages on Ubuntu can be bloated and slow. They can waste your storage and seemingly slow down system performance. Installing apps without snap is difficult on Ubuntu. You have much more ...

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 ...

Canonical has announced the Enterprise Store, a locally operated proxy for distributing Snap packages in networks where outbound internet connections are restricted. In completely isolated ...

A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Ubuntu component that isolates snap applications has been found to hand full root access to any local user on default installations of Ubuntu Desktop 24.04, ...