Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things

snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back

by David Callé on 12 December 2016

Last Thursday, December 8, the snapd team was happy to announce a new release of snapd (2.18), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides...

Internet of Things

Christmas-music-carousel-snap

by Didier Roche on 8 December 2016

Ding ding ding! It’s Christmas time, and as part of the festive competition we’re hosting that asks you to build a seasonal snap on your RaspberryPi…we...

Desktop

Jamming with Ubuntu Core

by April Wang on 7 December 2016

We celebrated the launch of Ubuntu Core 16 hackathon, or shall we say Snapathon, that took place in Shenzhen between 26-27th November. The 30+ hour gathering...

Internet of Things

Competition: Build a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi

by Amrisha Prashar on 1 December 2016

And our present for you this Christmas is… a competition to create a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi 2 or 3! We’d love to see the entries that are the most...

Internet of Things

10 desktop snaps written in November

by Didier Roche on 1 December 2016

It’s that time of the month again where we round up our top ten snaps from the last month! For those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to...

Internet of Things

Ubuntu SDK meets snapcraft

by Benjamin Zeller on 28 November 2016

Everyone who has followed Ubuntu lately for sure stumbled across the snappy technology, which does not only bring the new cross-distro packaging format “snap”...

Internet of Things

Pycom and Canonical to enable LPWAN communications via snaps

by Maarten Ectors on 25 November 2016

Pycom is the company behind the disruptive products such as the LoPy and SiPy which enable developers to easily get LoRa and Sigfox low-power WAN (LPWAN)...

Internet of Things

Making your snaps available to the store using snapcraft

by Sergio Schvezov on 15 November 2016

Now that Ubuntu Core has been officially released, it might be a good time to get your snaps into the Store! Delivery and Store Concepts So let’s start with a...

Internet of Things
Canonical announcements

Canonical and ARM collaborate on OpenStack

by Canonical on 17 October 2016

Canonical and ARM collaborate to offer commercial availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph for 64-bit ARM-based servers Availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and...

Canonical announcements

Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10

by Canonical on 13 October 2016

Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and...