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Guest
27 October 2016

Snapping Cuberite

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by James Tait, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com I’m a father of two pre-teens, and like many kids their age (and many adults, for that matter) they got caught up in the craze that is Minecraft. In our house

Guest
27 October 2016

Canonical
21 October 2016

Managing your physical infrastructure from the top of rack switch

Article Cloud and server

At the last OpenStack Design Summit in Austin, TX we showed you a preview of deploying your physical server and network infrastructure from the top-of-rack switch, which included OpenStack with your choice of SDN solution. This was made possible by disaggregating the network stack functionality (the “N” in Network...

Canonical
21 October 2016

didrocks
7 October 2016

The new Ubuntu Core 16 beta image is out!

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The Snappy team is happy to announce the Feature Freeze of Ubuntu Core 16, which means all the major features planned for the stable series 16 image have landed, and the upcoming weeks will consist exclusively of stabilization and polishing. Ubuntu Core is an operating system entirely based on snaps. Even the...

didrocks
7 October 2016

Canonical
28 September 2016

Learning to snap with codelabs

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I always felt that learning something new, especially new concepts and workflows usually works best if you see it first-hand and get to do things yourself. If you experience directly how your actions influence the system you’re working with, the new connections in your brain form much more quickly. Didier and I talked a while

Canonical
28 September 2016

Didier Roche
7 September 2016

10 Desktop snaps written in August

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More and more snaps are being created monthly! For those that may not know, Snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats such as .deb, .rpm, and others. Snaps are secure, isolated and allow apps to be rolled back should an

Didier Roche
7 September 2016

Amrisha Prashar
16 August 2016

Intel® Joule™ board powered by Ubuntu Core

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We’re happy to welcome a new development board in the Ubuntu family! The new Intel® Joule™ is a powerful board targeted at IoT and robotics makers and runs Ubuntu for a smooth development experience. It’s also affordable and compact enough to be used in deployment, therefore Ubuntu Core can be installed to make any device

Amrisha Prashar
16 August 2016

Canonical
11 July 2016

Snapd 2.0.10: new media interfaces, channel switching

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If it hasn’t already, snapd 2.0.10 should be making its way to your 16.04 systems. Here is what’s new!The 2.0.10 release contains a number of improvements and fixes over the 2.0.9 release that was available before. The highlights:ChannelsCh

Canonical
11 July 2016

Canonical
7 July 2016

Contributing to the world of snaps

Article Desktop

Zygmunt Krynicki wrote about the availability of bite-sized bugs for the snapd project.I took this as an opportunity to go through the snapcraft bugs as well and tag a few as bitesize myself. snapcraft is written in python, nicely commented documented and comes with a comprehensive test-suite. The people working on it...

Canonical
7 July 2016

Canonical
29 June 2016

Snapcraft 2.12: an ecosystem of parts, qmake and gulp

Article Cloud and server

Snapcraft 2.12 is here and is making its way to your 16.04 machines today.This release takes Snapcraft to a whole new level. For example, instead of defining your own project parts, you can now use and share them from a common, open, repository. This

Canonical
29 June 2016

Dustin Kirkland
20 June 2016

HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!

Article Cloud and server

Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever wanted to run classic (apt/deb) Ubuntu Server on a RaspberryPi2?Well, you’re in luck! &n

Dustin Kirkland
20 June 2016

HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!

Article Desktop

Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever wanted to run classic (apt/deb) Ubuntu Server on a RaspberryPi2?Well, you’re in luck! &n

Dustin Kirkland
20 June 2016

Gustavo Niemeyer
16 June 2016

Leveling up snapd integration tests

Article Cloud and server

Over the last several months there has been noticeable and growing pain associated with the evolving integration tests around snapd, and given the project goal of being a cross-distribution platform, we are very keen on solving this problem appropriately so that stability is guaranteed everywhere.With that mindset a...

Gustavo Niemeyer
16 June 2016

Stéphane Graber
16 February 2016

Running snaps in LXD containers

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Introduction The LXD and AppArmor teams have been working to support loading AppArmor policies inside LXD containers for a while. This support which finally landed in the latest Ubuntu kernels now makes it possible to install snap packages. Snap packages … Continue reading →

Stéphane Graber
16 February 2016

mark
20 January 2015

Smart things powered by snappy Ubuntu Core on ARM and x86

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Smart things powered by Ubuntu Core have automated, transactional security updates and access to a huge range of software for app developers. We hope it will be useful for the next generation of incredible machines and are delighted to be launching it with the support of a wide range of software and hardware specialists...

mark
20 January 2015

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