Internet of Things

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

Scott Moser
10 December 2014

Snappy Ubuntu Core and uvtool

Article Internet of Things

Earlier this week, Ubuntu announced the Snappy Ubuntu Core . As part of the announcement, a set of qemu based instructions were included for checking out a snappy image on your local system. In addition to that method, we’ve been working on updates to bring support for the transactional images to uvtool. Have you used...

Scott Moser
10 December 2014

Canonical
9 December 2014

A new, transactionally updated “snappy” Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

Today we’re announcing “snappy” Ubuntu Core, a new rendition of Ubuntu for the cloud with transactional updates. Ubuntu Core is a minimal server image with the same libraries as today’s Ubuntu, but applications are provided through a simpler mechanism. The snappy approach is faster, more reliable, and lets us provide...

Canonical
9 December 2014

mark
9 December 2014

Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates!

Article Internet of Things

Ubuntu Core brings the bulletproof update mechanism and application isolation security from the Ubuntu phone to the cloud. It creates the smallest, most secure rendition of Ubuntu ever! And it’s really amazing as a platform for container-based deployment with tools like Docker. If you want the very latest goodness...

mark
9 December 2014