Cloud and server
Cloud Chatter: January 2017
by James Donner on 3 February 2017
Internet of Things
Snapcraft 2.26 has been released
by Sergio Schvezov on 3 February 2017
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The first consumer device to run snaps: Nextcloud box
by Amrisha Prashar on 3 February 2017
The Nextcloud box is a private cloud and IoT solution for home users, giving consumers a way to take back control over their personal data. It’s an...
Internet of Things
Run scripts during snapcraft builds with “scriptlets”
by David Callé on 2 February 2017
Please note: this blog post is over 5 years old and is out of date. Scriptlets have been superseded by Overrides. If you have snapped an application, or tried...
Ubuntu
January’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 February 2017
Here are the best links shared by the design team during the first month of 2017: A Guide to 2017 Conferences Information Literacy Is a Design Problem Pattern...
Internet of Things
Industrial IoT revolution with Raspberry Pi compute module 3
by Maarten Ectors on 31 January 2017
The Raspberry Pi Foundation released a long awaited version of their Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3. The great news is that you get 4GB storage, 1GB memory and...
Internet of Things
48% of people unaware their IoT devices pose a security threat
by Canonical on 30 January 2017
LONDON, U.K. – 30 January, 2017 – Nearly half (48%) of citizens remain unaware that their connected devices could be infiltrated and used to conduct a cyber...
Cloud and server
Installing a DIY bare metal GPU cluster for Kubernetes
by Samuel Cozannet on 30 January 2017
I don’t know if you have ever seen one of the Orange Boxes from Canonical These are really sleek machines. They contain 10 Intel NUCs, plus an 11th one for...
Internet of Things
Ubuntu Core – how to enable aliases for your snaps commands
by David Callé on 28 January 2017
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...
Internet of Things
Award-winning drone technology with Ubuntu
by Amrisha Prashar on 27 January 2017
The market for drones is exploding as businesses and individuals embrace them. The global market for commercial applications of drone technology will balloon...
Internet of Things
ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core
by Kyle Fazzari on 27 January 2017
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,...