Internet of Things

Igor Ljubuncic
4 July 2019

Faster snap development – additional tips and tricks

Article Desktop

Recently, we published several blog posts, aimed at helping developers enjoy a smoother, faster, more streamlined experience creating snaps. We discussed the tools and tricks you can employ in snapcraft to accelerate the speed at which you iterate on your builds. We want to continue the work presented in the Make your...

Igor Ljubuncic
4 July 2019

Canonical
13 June 2019

Customisable for the enterprise: the next-generation of drones

Article Internet of Things

Drones, and their wide-ranging uses, have been a constant topic of conversation for some years now, but we’re only just beginning to move away from the hypothetical and into reality. The FAA estimates that there will be 2 million drones in the United States alone in 2019, as adoption within the likes of distribution,...

Canonical
13 June 2019

Anthony Dillon
10 June 2019

Design and Web team summary – 10 June 2019

Article Cloud and server

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. Integrating the blog into www.ubuntu.com We have been working on integrating the blog

Anthony Dillon
10 June 2019

Sarah Dickinson
7 June 2019

Small Robot Company sows the seeds for autonomous and more profitable farming

Article Internet of Things

In Europe, the cost of running a cereal farm – cultivating wheat, rice, and other grains – has risen by 85% in the last 25 years, yet crop yields and revenues have stagnated. And while farms struggle to remain profitable, it won’t be long before those static yields become insufficient to support growing populations. Reliance

Sarah Dickinson
7 June 2019

Alex Hung
4 June 2019

Debug ACPI Tables with Firmware Test Suite (FWTS)

Article Cloud and server

In my previous two articles, ACPI AML Debugger in Ubuntu 18.04 & Debug AML (DSD & SSDT) with ACPICA Utilities, I discussed techniques for AML debugging; however the ACPI specification includes many other important tables. Firmware Test Suite (FWTS) is a test suite (as the name indicates) that can play a big role in debugging

Alex Hung
4 June 2019

Sarah Dickinson
26 April 2019

An introduction to AppArmor

Article Cloud and server

Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated, attack frequency is on the rise, and the cost of cybercrime damage is projected to reach $6 trillion annually by 2021. Traditional defensive measures such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems that operate at the network perimeter are no longer enough to protect...

Sarah Dickinson
26 April 2019

Eric Jensen
26 April 2019

Ubuntu is the #1 embedded Linux for IoT

Article Internet of Things

The results are in! Eclipse.org recently published their 2019 IoT Developer Survey. Ubuntu is again the top choice for embedded & IoT, with our cousins Raspbian and Debian taking 2nd and 3rd respectively. The numbers fall off pretty steeply after that. 😉 For those who create embedded products or solutions, the message...

Eric Jensen
26 April 2019

Katie Elston
24 April 2019

Visit Canonical at Dell Technologies World

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Dell are working together to transform your business from the desktop to cloud to edge. Visit us at Dell Technologies World 2019 from Monday, 29 April to Wednesday, 1 May in booth #495 to talk with our experts about how you can innovate faster with Canonical and Dell, based on predictability, savings and

Katie Elston
24 April 2019

Eric Jensen
16 April 2019

Industrial & Embedded Linux: Looking Ahead

Article Internet of Things

I recently returned from an extended visit to Germany, where my colleagues and I kept busy attending conferences, visiting customers and partners. We travelled around the country, talking to many, many people at dozens of companies about embedded Linux. We confirmed existing trend data, and gained exciting new insights!...

Eric Jensen
16 April 2019

Kyle Fazzari
9 April 2019

Speed up your ROS snap builds

Article Internet of Things

A while back I wrote a post about distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps. If you want to enable some sort of add-on story, you need to have multiple snaps, and that remains the way to do it today with ROS. That approach works, but I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not

Kyle Fazzari
9 April 2019

Sarah Dickinson
9 April 2019

Optimising IoT bandwidth with delta updates

Article Internet of Things

As connected devices proliferate in the Internet of Things (IoT), companies need an efficient over-the-air (OTA) update mechanism for remotely delivering new software, features, firmware updates and security enhancements to potentially huge numbers of geographically dispersed embedded devices. Pushing software updates...

Sarah Dickinson
9 April 2019

Gustavo Niemeyer
5 April 2019

API v3 of the yaml package for Go is available

Article Cloud and server

API v3 of the yaml package for Go is out, and it brings comment handling, intermediate node representations, and much more. The initial sketch for v3 of the yaml package for Go was first drafted almost exactly a year ago, by the end of March last year (2018). If this package doesn’t sound familiar, it’s

Gustavo Niemeyer
5 April 2019

Canonical
2 April 2019

AWS IoT Greengrass released as a snap

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical and AWS are excited to announce the public release of AWS IoT Greengrass as a snap. AWS IoT Greengrass is software that brings local compute, messaging, data caching, sync, and ML inference capabilities to your IoT device. IoT and embedded developers can now easily install and get started with IoT Greengrass...

Canonical
2 April 2019

Martin Wimpress
22 March 2019

Snapcraft Summit Montreal

Article Cloud and server

Following previous events in New York, Seattle, and London, the fourth Snapcraft Summit is taking place in Montreal, Canada from June 11th to 13th 2019. We have partnered with Travis CI this time and also expanded the scope of the event to three tracks. Snapcraft Summit Snapcraft is the universal app store for Linux that

Martin Wimpress
22 March 2019

Internet of Things

All you need to know about building and managing IoT and embedded devices using Ubuntu.