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Alex Cattle
30 July 2019

A shift to the Linux app store experience

Article Internet of Things

Linux software developers historically have faced a number of challenges including fragmentation, distribution complexity and a lack of metrics into the success of their applications. Once an application is built, the journey does not end there – for companies and individual developers creating apps, thought needs to be...

Alex Cattle
30 July 2019

Sarah Dickinson
29 July 2019

Manjaro, snaps and the spirit of collaboration

Desktop Desktop

Linux distributions are all about freedom of choice for the end-user. However, there is a natural element of competition too. So, why did Philip Müller, one of the founders of the Manjaro distribution, come to the 2019 Snapcraft Summit in Montreal? There are several good reasons, according to Philip. First, he says,...

Sarah Dickinson
29 July 2019

Galem KAYO
29 July 2019

Edge computing monitoring with Kubernetes

Article Internet of Things

This blog demonstrates how to easily deploy monitoring tools at the edge using Kubernetes. In IoT scenarios, such a deployment brings the benefits of privacy, latency and minimal bandwidth cost. Luckily, MicroK8s the single node Kubernetes, caters for such use cases. The beauty of MicroK8s is that deployment can be done...

Galem KAYO
29 July 2019

Alex Cattle
25 July 2019

Getting started with AI

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From the smallest startups to the largest enterprises alike, organisations are using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to make the best, fastest, most informed decisions to overcome their biggest business challenges. But with AI/ML complexity spanning infrastructure, operations, resources, modelling and...

Alex Cattle
25 July 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
25 July 2019

Handy productivity software for your home and office

Article Desktop

Discovery is an integral part of any store experience. Sometimes, you know what you want and need, and the experience can be short and transactional. On other occasions, you want to explore, and search for new things. This applies equally to shopping malls as it does to software. In this article, we would like to

Igor Ljubuncic
25 July 2019

Stephan Fabel
25 July 2019

The 10 new rules of open source infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

Recently, I gave a keynote at the Cloud Native / OpenStack Days in Tokyo titled “the ten new rules of open source infrastructure”. It was well received and folks pointed out on Twitter that they would like to see more detail around those ten rules. Others seemed to benefit from clarifying commentary. I’ve attempted to

Stephan Fabel
25 July 2019

Carmine Rimi
25 July 2019

Getting Started with Serverless Computing using Knative

Article Cloud and server

A portable, multi-cloud install for Knative, using Microk8s.

Carmine Rimi
25 July 2019

Alan Griffiths
24 July 2019

Mir support for Wayland

Article Internet of Things

What is Mir, what is Wayland, do I care? Shells for graphical interfaces come in many forms, from digital signage and kiosks that just show a single full screen application; to desktop environments that manage multiple applications, multiple screens and multiple workspaces. Traditionally, shells are built from a number...

Alan Griffiths
24 July 2019

Canonical
24 July 2019

BT turns to Canonical Ubuntu to enable next generation 5G Cloud Core

Article Cloud and server

Today, Canonical announces its Charmed OpenStack on Ubuntu has been selected by BT as a key component of its next generation 5G Core. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, will provide the open source virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) as part of BT’s Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) program, and the transition...

Canonical
24 July 2019

Galem KAYO
23 July 2019

Getting started with Ubuntu Core – streaming video from a Raspberry Pi

Article Internet of Things

Artificial intelligence relies on machine vision just as much as human intelligence relies on vision. Image sensors are, therefore, crucial for AI applications because of the richness of data that they capture. Capturing and processing video and images at the edge is a capability that intelligent IoT applications need...

Galem KAYO
23 July 2019

Sarah Dickinson
23 July 2019

Community Snapcrafter on MicroK8s, summits and the evolving nature of snaps

Article Desktop

In January 2018, Dani Llewellyn joined her first Snapcraft Summit in Seattle in her role as a community Snapcrafter. At that event, we discussed her views on everything snap related from most requested snaps, new feature requests and popular discussion topics. Since then, snaps has grown across every metric and seen...

Sarah Dickinson
23 July 2019

Galem KAYO
19 July 2019

Robot lifecycle management with Ubuntu

Article Ubuntu

Lifecycle management entails fulfilling changing requirements over time. However, there is a gap that the existing robot development frameworks do not address, making it challenging to tackle system-level requirements (fault tolerance, system safety, maintainability, interoperability or reusability etc…). Ubuntu Core...

Galem KAYO
19 July 2019

Sarah Dickinson
18 July 2019

CMake leverages the Snapcraft Summit with Travis CI to build snaps

Article Desktop

CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. It is used to control the software compilation process and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in any compiler environment. While some users of CMake want to stay up to date with the latest...

Sarah Dickinson
18 July 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
18 July 2019

Handy snapcraft features: Remote build

Article Desktop

As you probably know, there are many ways you can build snaps: locally using snapcraft, with CI systems like Travis, through Launchpad, and also via the free online Snapcraft Build Service. Now, a new preview feature called Remote build also allows you to build snaps for multiple architectures directly from the command...

Igor Ljubuncic
18 July 2019