Internet of Things archives

7 posts from June 2020

Installing ROS in LXD Containers

By sidfaber, 29 June 2020

It’s the season for updates. The last few weeks have ushered in ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2 Foxy, both of which target the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 Focal...

Split Personality Snaps

By Alan Pope, 25 June 2020

Broadly speaking, most snaps in the Snap Store fall into one of two categories, desktop applications and server daemons. The graphical applications such as...

Open source holds the key to autonomous vehicles

By Adi Singh, 25 June 2020

A growing number of car companies have made their autonomous vehicle (AV) datasets public in recent years.  Daimler fueled the trend by making its Cityscapes...

Building an Ubuntu Core 18 image for Nitrogen i.MX6 board

By liam zheng, 24 June 2020

This article is written by Taiten Peng. Have you got i.MX6 hardware and are wondering how Ubuntu Core would run on it? In this blog, we will build an Ubuntu...

The Ubuntu Appliance portfolio

By Rhys Davies, 16 June 2020

We are delighted to share a new initiative – the Ubuntu Appliance portfolio. Together with NextCloud, Mosquitto, Plex, OpenHAB and AdGuard, we have created a...

People and processes behind “Ubuntu certified” devices

By Pierre Equoy, 10 June 2020

While searching for your next GNU/Linux enabled computer, you may have found that some vendors such as Dell, HP and Lenovo sell a selection of desktops and...

What’s the deal with edge computing?

By Adi Singh, 1 June 2020

With over 41 billion IoT devices expected to be active by 2027 — that’s at least 5 devices for every person on the planet — edge computing has emerged as a...