Blog posts tagged
"Snaps"

191 posts

Sarah Dickinson
21 August 2019

Jupyter looks to distro-agnostic packaging for the democratisation of installation

Article Desktop

When users of your application range from high school students to expert data scientists, it’s often wise to avoid any assumptions about their system configurations. The Jupyter Notebook is popular with a diverse user base, enabling the creation and sharing of documents containing live code, visualisations, and...

Sarah Dickinson
21 August 2019

Canonical
31 July 2019

Digital signage platform Xibo launches as a snap

Article Internet of Things

The open source digital signage platform, Xibo, is now available as a snap – the universal Linux app packaging format. Xibo provides a comprehensive suite of digital signage products, with its Content Management System (CMS) at the heart of this experience-led offering. Xibo for Linux is completely free and natively...

Canonical
31 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

wgs1
20 June 2019

Kubernetes on Mac: how to set up

Article Cloud and server

UPDATED in July 2020 with the latest instruction set. Are you looking for a Kubernetes solution to run on your Mac? MicroK8s is a lightweight, pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes developed by Canonical. It’s a compact Linux snap that installs a single-node Kubernetes cluster alongside carefully selected add-ons on...

wgs1
20 June 2019

alfonsosanchezbeato
18 June 2019

Your first robotic arm with Ubuntu Core, coming from Niryo

Article Ubuntu

Niryo has built a fantastic 6-axis robotic arm called ‘Niryo One’. It is a 3D-printed, affordable robotic arm focused mainly on educational purposes. Additionally, it is fully open source and based on ROS. On the hardware side, it is powered by a Raspberry Pi 3 and NiryoStepper motors, based on Arduino microcontrollers....

alfonsosanchezbeato
18 June 2019

Canonical
13 June 2019

Customisable for the enterprise: the next-generation of drones

Article Internet of Things

Drones, and their wide-ranging uses, have been a constant topic of conversation for some years now, but we’re only just beginning to move away from the hypothetical and into reality. The FAA estimates that there will be 2 million drones in the United States alone in 2019, as adoption within the likes of distribution,...

Canonical
13 June 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
16 May 2019

Introduction to snapcraft

Article Desktop

First steps are always hard, especially in technology. Most of the time, you need a primer, just the right dose of knowledge, to get started with a platform. This tutorial and upcoming sequels are designed to provide developers with simple, clear and effective tips and tricks on how to build and publish their applications as

Igor Ljubuncic
16 May 2019

Sarah Dickinson
26 April 2019

An introduction to AppArmor

Article Cloud and server

Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated, attack frequency is on the rise, and the cost of cybercrime damage is projected to reach $6 trillion annually by 2021. Traditional defensive measures such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems that operate at the network perimeter are no longer enough to protect...

Sarah Dickinson
26 April 2019

Canonical
18 April 2019

Open infrastructure, developer desktop and IoT are the focus for Ubuntu 19.04

Article Cloud and server

18th April, 2019: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 19.04, focused on open infrastructure deployments, the developer desktop, IoT, and cloud to edge software distribution. “The open-source-first on Ubuntu movement in telco, finance, and media has spread to other sectors. From the public cloud to the...

Canonical
18 April 2019

Eric Jensen
16 April 2019

Industrial & Embedded Linux: Looking Ahead

Article Internet of Things

I recently returned from an extended visit to Germany, where my colleagues and I kept busy attending conferences, visiting customers and partners. We travelled around the country, talking to many, many people at dozens of companies about embedded Linux. We confirmed existing trend data, and gained exciting new insights!...

Eric Jensen
16 April 2019

Sarah Dickinson
11 April 2019

Why the Visual Studio Code team launched a snap

Article Desktop

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is a popular free code editor with built-in support for debugging, task running, and version control. While available for Linux via tarball, rpm, and debian package options, the Visual Studio Code team had been seeking new options that would support seamless upgrades to match their rapid...

Sarah Dickinson
11 April 2019

Kyle Fazzari
9 April 2019

Speed up your ROS snap builds

Article Internet of Things

A while back I wrote a post about distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps. If you want to enable some sort of add-on story, you need to have multiple snaps, and that remains the way to do it today with ROS. That approach works, but I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not

Kyle Fazzari
9 April 2019

Sarah Dickinson
9 April 2019

Optimising IoT bandwidth with delta updates

Article Internet of Things

As connected devices proliferate in the Internet of Things (IoT), companies need an efficient over-the-air (OTA) update mechanism for remotely delivering new software, features, firmware updates and security enhancements to potentially huge numbers of geographically dispersed embedded devices. Pushing software updates...

Sarah Dickinson
9 April 2019

Canonical
4 April 2019

Visual Studio Code launches as a snap

Article Canonical announcements

4th  April 2019, London, UK – As of today, Microsoft Visual Studio Code is available for Linux as a snap, providing seamless auto-updates for its users. Visual Studio Code, a free, lightweight code editor, has redefined editors for building modern web and cloud applications, with built-in support for debugging, task...

Canonical
4 April 2019

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