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Porting Ubuntu Core 18 on Nvidia Jetson TX1 Developer Kit
By alfonsosanchezbeato, 15 March 2019
Ubuntu Core (UC) is Canonical’s take in the IoT space. There are pre-built images for officially supported devices, like Raspberry Pi or Intel NUCs, but for...
Make your snap development faster
By Igor Ljubuncic, 14 March 2019
“All my centurions develop using snaps.” Julius Caesar By and large, software development can be an enjoyable process. Until you hit the first error, that is....
ROS 2 launch: required nodes
By Kyle Fazzari, 11 March 2019
When using the Robot Operating System (ROS), it’s fairly common to want to shut down a launched system if a specific node (or set of nodes) exits. This is...
Canonical at NVIDIA GTC 2019
By Canonical, 7 March 2019
Canonical will be attending Nvidia’s GTC Conference in San Jose, California March 18 – 21, 2019.
How to ensure the ongoing security and compliance of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’
By Canonical, 7 March 2019
As 14.04 reaches the end of its five-year, Standard Security Maintenance, LTS window in April 2019, support for the OS is transitioning into a new phase –...
Infographic: Snapcraft for developers
By Canonical, 6 March 2019
At the end of last year, we shared an infographic highlighting the adoption of snaps by users for their desktop, server or IoT devices. Those snaps wouldn’t...
MAAS – Fast and efficient virtualisation for small and medium enterprises
By Canonical, 1 March 2019
The advent of virtualisation has significantly changed the way we use IT infrastructure. In theory, the ability to share single server resources to run...
Building ROS 2 snaps with Colcon
By Kyle Fazzari, 28 February 2019
The snapcraft CLI has supported building ROS1 snaps for a while via the catkin plugin. We supported the ROS2 betas via the ament plugin, but that was before...
Using LXD on your Chromebook
By Stéphane Graber, 26 February 2019
Introduction On supported Chromebook, starting with Chrome OS 69, a new feature called Linux Apps was introduced. This allows Chrome OS users, on supported to...
Ubuntu is EAL2 certified
By Canonical, 26 February 2019
Canonical has received Common Criteria EAL2 certification. The evaluation covers a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS on one of the supported platforms...
Securing IoT device data against physical access
By Sarah Dickinson, 26 February 2019
Security remains the number one concern when designing and deploying IoT devices. High profile breaches continue to occur and concerns cease to subside. For...
EdgeX Foundry, the common framework for IoT edge computing, now available as a snap
By Tony Espy, 25 February 2019
EdgeX Foundry is now available as a snap, making it available to millions of Linux users and developers via the ever-expanding Snap Store. EdgeX Foundry is a...