Internet of Things

Ubuntu Core and snaps for easy IoT deployment

by Sarah Dickinson on 26 October 2017

Cinergy makes significant digital signage savings using Ubuntu Core

by Sarah Dickinson on 24 October 2017

Ubuntu 17.10 releases with GNOME, Kubernetes 1.8 & minimal base images

by Canonical on 19 October 2017

19th October, London, UK: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 17.10 featuring a new GNOME desktop on Wayland, and new versions of KDE, MATE and...

Heroku as a snap: talking security, Snapcraft & daily updates

by Sarah Dickinson on 4 October 2017

Created 10 years ago and now owned by Salesforce, Heroku is a hosted cloud platform as a service (PaaS) which makes it easy for developers to run apps and...

Snap configuration: the configure hook

by Kyle Fazzari on 3 October 2017

This article originally appeared on Kyle’s blog You’ve heard it a million times: snaps bundle their dependencies. People seem to understand and accept the...

Snap install-time setup: the install hook

by Kyle Fazzari on 3 October 2017

This article originally appeared on Kyle’s blog When it comes to developing snaps, there’s a particular confusion out there that I see over and over again:...

First Ubuntu Core Workshop in Shenzhen

by liam zheng on 2 October 2017

Highlights The first Ubuntu Core workshop in Shenzhen Orange Pi Ubuntu Core App Store is online Three SOC companies showcase Ubuntu based solution Shenzhen...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS selected for Samsung ARTIK Gateway modules

by Canonical on 28 September 2017

Canonical today announced that it will bring its Ubuntu 16.04 operating system to the Samsung ARTIK™ internet of things ecosystem. The Samsung ARTIK platform...

NEC partners with Canonical on Ubuntu Core based signage platform

by Canonical on 13 September 2017

CMS digital signage solution leverages NEC large format displays and the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 Munich, 13 September 2017 – NEC Display Solutions...

Fresh Snaps from August 2017

by David Callé on 11 September 2017

September, back to school! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about productivity and collaboration tools. Very competent web browser? Check. Messaging...

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 2

by Canonical on 7 September 2017

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services (Part 1) Tracks With tracks, developers can give a group of users the ability to stay on...

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 1

by Canonical on 4 September 2017

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services Ever since snaps were introduced, a crucial part of their feature set has been the...