Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu Core"

244 posts


Kyle Fazzari
27 January 2017

ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf. I even tried building ROS Indigo from source for arm64 about a year ago, but ran into dependency issues with a missing sbcl. Well, with surprisingly little fanfare, ROS Kinetic was released with support for arm64 in their prebuilt...

Kyle Fazzari
27 January 2017


April Wang
22 December 2016

The 4th China Mobile Global Partner Conference Forum

Article Internet of Things

China Mobile units 24 industry leaders forming the Digital Home Cooperation Alliance Canonical attends the partner conference and becomes a member of the alliance The 4th China Mobile Global Partner Conference took place on the 18th December 2016 at the 17,000 square meters Pazhou Poly Plaza in Guangzhou, this four-day...

April Wang
22 December 2016


Amrisha Prashar
12 December 2016

Webinar: 2017 – what’s in store for IoT?

Article Internet of Things

It’s nearing the end of the year! Time to take a breather and plan for 2017. As part of our ‘IoT builders’ webinar series, we have asked some of the most prominent technologists, community builders and visionaries in this space for their advice and practical predictions on what’s worth working on next! Speakers include...

Amrisha Prashar
12 December 2016


David Callé
12 December 2016

snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back

Article Internet of Things

Last Thursday, December 8, the snapd team was happy to announce a new release of snapd (2.18), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides the snap command. It’s time we take a look at what makes this release stand out. A brief tour of new snap commands (and the improved snap find) On

David Callé
12 December 2016


Didier Roche
8 December 2016

Christmas-music-carousel-snap

Article Internet of Things

Ding ding ding! It’s Christmas time, and as part of the festive competition we’re hosting that asks you to build a seasonal snap on your RaspberryPi…we couldn’t help but try out another example of our own. Didier from the dev team has created a Christmas music carousel snap! The snap allows you to play a

Didier Roche
8 December 2016


April Wang
7 December 2016

Jamming with Ubuntu Core

Article Desktop

We celebrated the launch of Ubuntu Core 16 hackathon, or shall we say Snapathon, that took place in Shenzhen between 26-27th November. The 30+ hour gathering and coding session was attended by developers, makers and anyone that was interested in the Internet of Things and the technology that powers them. Attendees were...

April Wang
7 December 2016


Amrisha Prashar
1 December 2016

Competition: Build a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi

Article Internet of Things

And our present for you this Christmas is… a competition to create a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi 2 or 3! We’d love to see the entries that are the most festive, original and work across devices – it could be snow falling, Christmas carols, Santa Claus snaps – anything that is festive! The

Amrisha Prashar
1 December 2016


Didier Roche
1 December 2016

10 desktop snaps written in November

Article Internet of Things

It’s that time of the month again where we round up our top ten snaps from the last month! 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. They are

Didier Roche
1 December 2016


Benjamin Zeller
28 November 2016

Ubuntu SDK meets snapcraft

Article Internet of Things

Everyone who has followed Ubuntu lately for sure stumbled across the snappy technology, which does not only bring the new cross-distro packaging format “snap” but also a sandboxing technology for apps, as well as transactional updates that can be rolled back in case of an update going wrong and a new way of installing and

Benjamin Zeller
28 November 2016


Maarten Ectors
25 November 2016

Pycom and Canonical to enable LPWAN communications via snaps

Article Internet of Things

Pycom is the company behind the disruptive products such as the LoPy and SiPy which enable developers to easily get LoRa and Sigfox low-power WAN (LPWAN) communication happening. Their latest product, the FiPy combines LoRa, Sigfox and LTE-CAT M1/NB1. All also support Bluetooth Low Energy and WiFi. The FiPy can be...

Maarten Ectors
25 November 2016


Sergio Schvezov
15 November 2016

Making your snaps available to the store using snapcraft

Article Internet of Things

Now that Ubuntu Core has been officially released, it might be a good time to get your snaps into the Store! Delivery and Store Concepts So let’s start with a refresher on what we have available on the Store side to manage your snaps. Every time you push a snap to the store, the store

Sergio Schvezov
15 November 2016


Canonical
3 November 2016

Ubuntu Core 16 delivers foundation for secure IoT

News Internet of Things

    Regular and reliable updates address security issues in IoT devices Snap confinement ensures applications are trusted only with necessary data Meets industry and regulatory requirements for updates, operations and security Provides mechanisms for ISV, manufacturer and enterprise control of updates Enables app stores...

Canonical
3 November 2016


Canonical
17 October 2016

Canonical and ARM collaborate on OpenStack

News Canonical announcements

Canonical and ARM collaborate to offer commercial availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph for 64-bit ARM-based servers Availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph support included with Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage enterprise-grade offering Partnership extends Canonical’s support for ARM server which dates back to Ubuntu...

Canonical
17 October 2016


Canonical
13 October 2016

Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10

News Canonical announcements

Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and bare-metal provisioning Hybrid cloud operations with Juju 2.0 Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, tablet and phone UX convergence OpenStack Newton with secure...

Canonical
13 October 2016