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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...