Internet of Things

All you need to know about building and managing IoT and embedded devices using Ubuntu.

Advantech and Canonical form strategic partnership for IoT gateways

by Canonical on 16 August 2016

Ubuntu Core operating system provides production ready platform for gateways. London, UK – August 16, 2016 – Canonical today announced it has formed a...

Our IoT webinar series continues: Industrial IoT edge gateway

by Amrisha Prashar on 4 August 2016

We’re into our third webinar in our IoT series with a focus on Industrial IoT edge gateway. The next session will focus on The Convergence of Information and...

10 Desktop Snaps written in July

by Didier Roche on 4 August 2016

More and more snaps are being created monthly! For those that may not know, Snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many...

Bubblegum-96 boards powered by Ubuntu Core

by April Wang on 28 July 2016

We are pleased to announce that an image of Ubuntu Core is officially available for uCRobotics’ Bubblegum-96 board. The board includes an optimised...

Snapd 2.0.10: new media interfaces, channel switching

by Canonical on 11 July 2016

If it hasn’t already, snapd 2.0.10 should be making its way to your 16.04 systems. Here is what’s new!The 2.0.10 release contains a number of improvements and...

Contributing to the world of snaps

by Canonical on 7 July 2016

Zygmunt Krynicki wrote about the availability of bite-sized bugs for the snapd project.I took this as an opportunity to go through the snapcraft bugs as well...

Digital Signage meets IoT Series continues!

by Amrisha Prashar on 7 July 2016

Last month we kicked off our first in our Digital Signage meets IoT series focusing on Building success with a RaspberryPi. It was a great session from...

Mycroft: The open source answer to natural language platforms

by Amrisha Prashar on 7 July 2016

We’re thrilled to be working with Mycroft, the open source answer to proprietary natural language platform. Mycroft has adopted Ubuntu Core and Snaps to...

10 Desktop Snaps written in June

by Didier Roche on 7 July 2016

For those that may not know, Snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package...

Announcing new snap desktop launchers

by Didier Roche on 6 July 2016

BackgroundIntegrating desktop applications with snaps has been a little bit challenging in terms of getting them looking and behaving as part of the system....

HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!

by Dustin Kirkland on 24 June 2016

SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux packaging format of the future. And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the...

HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!

by Dustin Kirkland on 20 June 2016

Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever...