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Using snaps to advance robotics development

by Sarah Dickinson on 30 October 2017

Robotics development has seen great expansion in recent years. Some roboticists strongly believe that this expansion is not only due to the rise of...

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elementary on why snaps are right for their Linux distro

by Sarah Dickinson on 11 October 2017

elementary is the company behind the elementary OS Linux distribution and the associated app store. Celebrating their tenth anniversary this year, elementary...

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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...

Internet of Things

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...

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Wavebox snap: A central hub for Gmail, Outlook, Trello, Slack and more

by luciadecastro on 12 September 2017

Wavebox is an app that brings together most of the tools you’ll need on an everyday basis, like Gmail, Outlook, Office 365, Slack and more, and is now...

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68% of businesses are struggling to hire talent for IoT

by Canonical on 9 August 2017

Research from Canonical shows businesses are battling with drought in the “Internet of Talent” pool London, 9th August 2017 – Businesses are struggling to...

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Robot development made easy with Husarion CORE2-ROS running Ubuntu

by Guest on 12 July 2017

This is the first in a series of two posts by guest blogger; Dominik Nowak, CEO at Husarion. We’ve seen many breakthroughs happening in the IT industry over...

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Ubuntu Core: Making a factory image with private snaps

by Kyle Fazzari on 11 July 2017

This is a follow-up to the ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core series to answer a question I received: “What if I want to make an image for the...

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Windows 10 loves Ubuntu

by Dimitri John Ledkov on 11 July 2017

Ubuntu 16.04 is now available as an app from the Windows Store for users running Windows Insider builds. The newly improved app is created by Canonical in...

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User acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis CI

by elopio on 5 July 2017

Travis CI offers a great continuous integrationservice for the projects hosted in GitHub. With it you can run tests, deliverartifacts and deploy services on...

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Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges

by Iain Lane on 3 July 2017

I work at Canonical, on the desktop team. The team works on Ubuntu Desktop, publishing a release every six months containing the fruits of our efforts — or at...