Internet of Things archives

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The Windows Calculator on Linux with Uno Platform

By Rhys Davies, 15 October 2020

The good folks in the Uno Platform community have ported the open-source Windows Calculator to Linux. And they’ve done it quicker than Microsoft could bring...

Homelab clusters: LXD micro cloud on Raspberry Pi

By Rhys Davies, 9 October 2020

Set up and run your own homelab with the LXD Ubuntu Appliance. Spin up and manage virtual machines (VMs) and containers, run and test workloads across...

Set up the AdGuard Home Ubuntu Appliance

By Rhys Davies, 18 August 2020

Block ads and trackers, and regain full control of your network. The AdGuard Home Ubuntu Appliance is an easy way for anyone to shield their WiFi network, and...

Develop Uno Platform projects on Linux with Visual Studio

By Rhys Davies, 13 August 2020

Uno Platform is bringing their support to Linux. Uno allows you to build native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML from a single code...

Set up Collabora Online on the Nextcloud Ubuntu Appliance

By Rhys Davies, 6 August 2020

Alongside five popular software projects, we recently launched a new initiative called Ubuntu Appliances. A portfolio of software that allows users to turn a...

Advantech releases EPC-C301 for machine vision applications with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

By liam zheng, 4 August 2020

Advantech, a leading global provider of intelligent IoT systems and embedded platforms, is pleased to announce EPC-C301, a compact fanless box PC powered by...

How to manage snap updates

By Igor Ljubuncic, 9 July 2020

Updates are an integral part of the software lifecycle. Quite often, they bring improvements, vital security patches – and sometimes, unfortunately, bugs,...

A snap confined shell based on Mir: Mircade

By Alan Griffiths, 3 July 2020

Mircade: An example snap confined user shell There are various scenarios and reasons for packaging a Snap confined shell and a selection of applications...

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...