Internet of Things archives
89 posts from 2016
Bubblegum-96 boards powered by Ubuntu Core
By April Wang, 28 July 2016
We are pleased to announce that an image of Ubuntu Core is officially available for uCRobotics’ Bubblegum-96 board. The board includes an optimised...
Snapd 2.0.10: new media interfaces, channel switching
By Canonical, 11 July 2016
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...
Contributing to the world of snaps
By Canonical, 7 July 2016
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...
Digital Signage meets IoT Series continues!
By Amrisha Prashar, 7 July 2016
Last month we kicked off our first in our Digital Signage meets IoT series focusing on Building success with a RaspberryPi. It was a great session from...
Mycroft: The open source answer to natural language platforms
By Amrisha Prashar, 7 July 2016
We’re thrilled to be working with Mycroft, the open source answer to proprietary natural language platform. Mycroft has adopted Ubuntu Core and Snaps to...
10 Desktop Snaps written in June
By Didier Roche, 7 July 2016
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...
Announcing new snap desktop launchers
By Didier Roche, 6 July 2016
BackgroundIntegrating desktop applications with snaps has been a little bit challenging in terms of getting them looking and behaving as part of the system....
HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!
By Dustin Kirkland, 24 June 2016
SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux packaging format of the future. And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the...
HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!
By Dustin Kirkland, 20 June 2016
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...
Leveling up snapd integration tests
By Gustavo Niemeyer, 16 June 2016
Over the last several months there has been noticeable and growing pain associated with the evolving integration tests around snapd, and given the project...
Universal “snap” packages launch on multiple Linux distros
By Canonical, 14 June 2016
Developers from multiple Linux distributions and companies today announced collaboration on the “snap” universal Linux package format, enabling a single...
Apps to Snaps
By Jamie Bennett, 1 June 2016
Distributing applications on Linux is not always easy. You have different packaging formats, base systems, available libraries, and distribution release...