Internet of Things

Kyle Fazzari
2 February 2018

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 3

Article Desktop

The third day of the Snapcraft Summit here in Seattle saw all the developers reconvene and really get down to work, and ROSHub came by in the afternoon with their snap-powered robots! Strictly-confined snaps can only access specific areas on disk that are defined by the interfaces they utilize. This works well, but can...

Kyle Fazzari
2 February 2018

Kyle Fazzari
1 February 2018

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 2

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The second day of Snapcraft Summits tend to be particularly productive as all the participants get more familiar with each other, and this one is no exception. In addition to developers from CircleCI, Electron, Microsoft, Plex, and Slack, today saw the addition of our friends from ROSHub joining us to hack on their...

Kyle Fazzari
1 February 2018

Alan Pope
1 February 2018

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 1

Article Desktop

The first day of the Snapcraft Summit in Seattle kicked off with a simple round of introductions and each participant voicing their plans for the week. People from Microsoft, Skype, Slack, Electron and CircleCI joined the snap advocacy and Snapcraft teams to crank through their tasks. Snapcraft community superstar Dan...

Alan Pope
1 February 2018

Kyle Fazzari
21 January 2018

Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]

Article Desktop

This is the second blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we walked through all the hardware necessary to follow this series, and introduced Ubuntu Core, the operating system for IoT devices. We installed it on our Raspberry Pi, and used it to

Kyle Fazzari
21 January 2018

David Callé
19 January 2018

Tutorial: Continuous delivery of snaps with Circle CI

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Bullet-proof continuous delivery of software is crucial to the health of your community, more than a way to run manual tests, it also enables your early adopters to test code and give feedback on it as soon as it lands. You may be already using build.snapcraft.io to do so for snaps, but in some cases,

David Callé
19 January 2018

Dustin Kirkland
4 January 2018

Ubuntu Updates for the Meltdown / Spectre Vulnerabilities

Article Canonical announcements

For up-to-date patch, package, and USN links, please refer to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown Unfortunately, you’ve probably already read about one of the most widespread security issues in modern computing history — colloquially known as “Meltdown” (CVE-2017-5754) and...

Dustin Kirkland
4 January 2018

Kyle Fazzari
19 December 2017

Your first robot: A beginner’s guide to ROS and Ubuntu Core [1/5]

Article Internet of Things

Some time ago I created a blog/video series that walked the reader through creating a prototype using the Robot Operating System (ROS) and taking it to production using Ubuntu Core. However, that series was intended more for robotics professionals; it assumed quite a bit of ROS knowledge, and required some costly...

Kyle Fazzari
19 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
19 December 2017

JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives

Article Desktop

Used by companies as diverse as NASA, Pinterest, and CitiBank, JetBrains takes the repetition out of a developer’s life through their range of developer tools which automate routine checks and corrections. JetBrains offers 21 different tools for developers and in the last couple of months have created snaps for around...

Sarah Dickinson
19 December 2017

Canonical
14 December 2017

UbuCon Europe: 27th, 28th, 29th of April 2018 in Gijón/Xixón, Spain

Article Cloud and server

The next Ubucon Europe will take place at the Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos in Gijón/Xixón (Asturias, Spain), the 27th, 28th & 29th of April 2018. The Antiguo Instituto was built in 1797 as a centre for scientific and technical education. Currently, it is a public space maintained and managed by the City Council and it has

Canonical
14 December 2017

kzapalowicz
14 December 2017

Canonical shows EdgeX on ARM

Article Edgex

Beginning in March, I have been assigned to the Linaro organisation to carry on the work with the LITE (Linaro IoT and Embedded) group by researching design and development of software for ARM-based gateway devices. One of my main focus points has been to investigate how complex it would be to run EdgeX on ARM.

kzapalowicz
14 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
11 December 2017

Rocket.chat achieves simplicity through snaps

Article Desktop

Switching to snaps, Rocket.Chat has been able to get its product into the hands of users with as few steps as possible, switching a multi-stage set-up process for a single command and instant installation.

Sarah Dickinson
11 December 2017

Ellen Arnold
2 December 2017

Appstores: The Path To IoT Revenue Post-Sale

Webinar Internet of Things

As more enterprise embark on the path to IoT, they face 2 obstacles: monetization and security. A number of them will stay in an analysis paralysis mode, while their competitors and the rest of the market progress. What they’re really after is a secure path to growth that lets them experiment now without jeopardising their

Ellen Arnold
2 December 2017

Canonical
2 December 2017

Building 21st Century Infrastructure

Webinar Cloud and server

This webinar was part of our Ubuntu Enterprise Summit, December 2017. Speaker:Mark Shuttleworth In his introduction keynote to the Ubuntu Enterprise Summit Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical, explained his vision for the future of enterprise architecture. View Now

Canonical
2 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
30 November 2017

Ubuntu Core manages 25m data points a minute

Article Internet of Things

IMS Evolve’s systems monitor 25 million data points every minute of every day and manage almost 98,000 sites across 12 countries. Learn how they adopted Ubuntu Core on Dell Edge Gateways to run the cold-chain solutions of some of the most recognisable food retailers.

Sarah Dickinson
30 November 2017

Internet of Things

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