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"Ubuntu Core"

David Callé
28 January 2017

Ubuntu Core – how to enable aliases for your snaps commands

Internet of Things Article

We are happy to announce that a new version of Ubuntu Core, based on snapd 2.21, has been released to the stable snaps channel yesterday. As with any stable release, your Ubuntu Core devices will update and reboot automatically. If you are using snaps on the desktop, the release will reach you through a snapd ...

Kyle Fazzari
27 January 2017

ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

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 archive! I thought it ...

April Wang
22 December 2016

The 4th China Mobile Global Partner Conference Forum

Internet of Things Article

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 event is themed as ...

Amrisha Prashar
12 December 2016

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

Internet of Things Article

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 Dominique ...

David Callé
12 December 2016

snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back

Internet of Things Article

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 ...

Didier Roche
8 December 2016

Christmas-music-carousel-snap

Internet of Things Article

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 ...

April Wang
7 December 2016

Jamming with Ubuntu Core

Desktop Article

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 from different back ...

Amrisha Prashar
1 December 2016

Competition: Build a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi

Internet of Things Article

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 ...

Didier Roche
1 December 2016

10 desktop snaps written in November

Internet of Things Article

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 ...

Benjamin Zeller
28 November 2016

Ubuntu SDK meets snapcraft

Internet of Things Article

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 ...

Maarten Ectors
25 November 2016

Pycom and Canonical to enable LPWAN communications via snaps

Internet of Things Article

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 currently pre-ordered on ...

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