Internet of Things archives
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Ubuntu in the wild – 2nd of March 2021
By Andreea Munteanu, 2 March 2021
The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. It is a summary of all the...
Creating Graphical Shells – Try Mir in a Virtual Machine
By Alan Griffiths, 25 February 2021
What is Mir? Mir is a set of libraries for creating graphical shells for Linux on a range of hardware. This means that there are a number of shells based on...
Build smart displays with mir 2.3.2
By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 22 February 2021
mir was designed to help systems on chips (SoCs) to reduce their development and maintenance investment in Linux graphics drivers. Today, mir works across the...
Canonical & Ubuntu at Embedded World Virtual 2021
By anastasiavalti, 19 February 2021
Embedded World 2021 is just around the corner and we’re excited to be sponsoring and connecting with our fellow EW-ers once again. This time, the embedded...
Ubuntu Core 20 secures Linux for IoT
By Canonical, 2 February 2021
2nd February 2021: Canonical’s Ubuntu Core 20, a minimal, containerised version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for IoT devices and embedded systems, is now generally...
Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu: 2020 roundup
By Rhys Davies, 15 December 2020
We’re almost there, 2021 is just around the corner. Like many others, we at Canonical have a deep appreciation for all things Raspberry Pi. We see the good...
Embedded Linux for teams
By Galem KAYO, 26 November 2020
A Linux kernel for each developer team, which uses it to bring up target boards. Bespoke, built, issued, and maintained over years by the vendor. Teams that...
Exploring ROS 2 Kubernetes configurations
By sidfaber, 23 November 2020
Kubernetes and robotics make a great match. However, as we have seen, robots running ROS 2 can be tricky to set up on Kubernetes. This blog series has...
Distribute ROS 2 across machines with MicroK8s
By sidfaber, 17 November 2020
Introduction Our simple ROS 2 talker and listener setup runs well on a single Kubernetes node, now let’s distribute it out across multiple computers. This...
Malawi’s TNM selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to help lead virtualisation charge
By Canonical, 10 November 2020
10 November 2020 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack, an open source private cloud solution that allows...
ROS 2 on Kubernetes: a simple talker and listener setup
By sidfaber, 9 November 2020
Kubernetes and ROS make a great match, but ROS2 can be tricky to set up. In this post we demonstrate a scalable system with MicroK8s on Ubuntu.
Edge-native Linux
By Galem KAYO, 8 November 2020
Tech innovators use Linux to create intelligent devices for homes, factories, buildings, cities or vehicles etc… These things are deployed at the edge, in...