Blog posts tagged
"developers"

135 posts

Kyle Fazzari
11 July 2017

Ubuntu Core: Making a factory image with private snaps

Article Internet of Things

This is a follow-up to the ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core series to answer a question I received: “What if I want to make an image for the factory, but don’t want to make my snaps public?” This question is of course not robotics-specific, and neither is its answer. In this post we’ll

Kyle Fazzari
11 July 2017

Dimitri John Ledkov
11 July 2017

Windows 10 loves Ubuntu

Article Desktop

Ubuntu 16.04 is now available as an app from the Windows Store for users running Windows Insider builds. The newly improved app is created by Canonical in collaboration with the Microsoft WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) team as a result of the work announced at Microsoft Build 2017 Conference, after the first...

Dimitri John Ledkov
11 July 2017

elopio
5 July 2017

User acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis CI

Article Desktop

Travis CI offers a great continuous integrationservice for the projects hosted in GitHub. With it you can run tests, deliverartifacts and deploy services on pull requests, when they are merged, or withsome other frecuency.Last week theyupdated the

elopio
5 July 2017

Iain Lane
3 July 2017

Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges

Article Desktop

I work at Canonical, on the desktop team. The team works on Ubuntu Desktop, publishing a release every six months containing the fruits of our efforts — or at least those ones that are ready enough for real people to use. For the next release (out in October), we were given a big task. Switch the desktop

Iain Lane
3 July 2017

Guest
28 June 2017

Build, test, and publish snap packages using snapcraft

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Ricardo Feliciano, Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-iot@canonical.com. Snapcraft, the package management system fighting for its spot at the Linux table, re-imagines how you can deliver your software. A new set of cross-distro...

Guest
28 June 2017

Canonical
27 June 2017

Canonical supports Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3

News Canonical announcements

London UK, 27th June 2017: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announces that its IoT OS, Ubuntu Core, is available on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 – the general-purpose compute product from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 (CM3), announced in January 2017, is a micro-version...

Canonical
27 June 2017

Guest
14 June 2017

Project Sputnik: crazy idea to community driven developer systems

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-iot@canonical.com Five years ago, I pitched a crazy idea to an internal innovation team at Dell: what if Dell took its highest end laptop, pre-loaded Ubuntu on it, included all the needed drivers and

Guest
14 June 2017

Canonical
13 June 2017

Amazon Greengrass launches as a snap on Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

Last week, Amazon launched Greengrass, their new IoT platform allowing developers to create intelligent edge software. Amazon is collaborating with a variety of manufacturers to make Greengrass available on as many devices as possible from home gateways, industrial gateways to smart microphones. This is a reflection of...

Canonical
13 June 2017

Kyle Fazzari
31 May 2017

The Turtlebot 3 has launched

Article Internet of Things

If you’re familiar with ROS (Robot Operating System), chances are you’re also familiar with the Turtlebot. The first version of the Turtlebot was created back in 2010 to serve as an inexpensive platform for learning ROS. This was followed in 2012 by the Turtlebot 2, which has since become the reference platform for...

Kyle Fazzari
31 May 2017

Thibaut Rouffineau
30 May 2017

Build.snapcraft.io gets your code ready to distribute in minutes

Article Cloud and server

The public beta release of build.snapcraft.io is now open! build.snapcraft.io is an easy and free to use platform for publishing your software to the tens of millions of machines running Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuSE, Arch, Gentoo, Yocto and others. whichever Operating System they’re running, the behaviour of your...

Thibaut Rouffineau
30 May 2017

Sarah Dickinson
17 May 2017

Ubuntu ranked as 2nd most used IoT OS by Eclipse Foundation survey

Article Internet of Things

Last week we posted a blog on programming languages following the Eclipse Foundation 2017 IoT survey results. This week we look at the findings from a business perspective which highlight a number of IoT trends emerging from the wide ranging survey from key industries, growth of new technologies, most common concerns...

Sarah Dickinson
17 May 2017

Guest
16 May 2017

DataArt release new version of Alexa Virtual Device for Raspberry Pi

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by DataArt. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com This project aims to provide the ability to bring Alexa to any Linux device including embedded systems like Raspberry Pi or DragonBoard boards. The binary release is packed into a snap package,...

Guest
16 May 2017

Sarah Dickinson
10 May 2017

Why language choices can be irrelevant when choosing the right IoT OS

Article Internet of Things

This is the first in a series of two blogs exploring the finding from the latest Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. A couple of months ago we posted a blog inviting developers to contribute to the 3rd Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. The 2017 results are now published with a total of 713 respondents, from all

Sarah Dickinson
10 May 2017

Kyle Fazzari
9 May 2017

ROS production: create Ubuntu Core image with snap preinstalled [5/5]

Article Internet of Things

This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a gadget snap to allow confined access to the Turtlebot. In this post, we’re going to put all the pieces from this series together and create an Ubuntu Core image with our ROS snap preinstalled,

Kyle Fazzari
9 May 2017

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