Blog posts tagged
"Snaps"

191 posts

Juan Real
4 April 2019

Remote collaborative design

Article People and culture

Hands up if you or someone in your team work remotely. I am sure there are many of you out there. One of the biggest growing trends, since I started working in the technology industry 15 years ago, is how common and accessible working from home has become. There are many advances that contributed to its adoption, but...

Juan Real
4 April 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
28 March 2019

Snap startup time improvements

Article Desktop

Several months ago, we shared an article titled I have a need, a need for snap that detailed the application performance results of snaps compared to their classic repo counterparts. We tested GIMP and VLC on both Ubuntu and Fedora, with some rather interesting findings. The one aspect of the application usage sequence we did

Igor Ljubuncic
28 March 2019

Eric Jensen
18 March 2019

The path to Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

At Canonical, helping customers overcome their challenges is what we do every day. In the IoT world, a common challenge we encounter is customers who are interested in transitioning to Ubuntu Core and the snapcraft.io ecosystem, but are unsure how to begin. This post covers the recommended approach. In most cases, it’s...

Eric Jensen
18 March 2019

Canonical
6 March 2019

Infographic: Snapcraft for developers

Article Cloud and server

At the end of last year, we shared an infographic highlighting the adoption of snaps by users for their desktop, server or IoT devices. Those snaps wouldn’t be available without the growing number of developers building them behind the scenes. But why have developers, including those from some of the world’s largest...

Canonical
6 March 2019

Kyle Fazzari
28 February 2019

Building ROS 2 snaps with Colcon

Article Internet of Things

The snapcraft CLI has supported building ROS1 snaps for a while via the catkin plugin. We supported the ROS2 betas via the ament plugin, but that was before Open Robotics had a ROS2 package repository setup, which meant that the ament plugin built the ROS2 underlay from source, and it was predictably dreadfully slow. However,

Kyle Fazzari
28 February 2019

Tony Espy
25 February 2019

EdgeX Foundry, the common framework for IoT edge computing, now available as a snap

Article Edgex

EdgeX Foundry is now available as a snap, making it available to millions of Linux users and developers via the ever-expanding Snap Store. EdgeX Foundry is a vendor-neutral open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation building a common open framework for IoT edge computing. EdgeX provides the ability to extract...

Tony Espy
25 February 2019

Sarah Dickinson
20 February 2019

How selecting the right Linux OS expedites IoT time to market

Article Internet of Things

With a proliferation of related hardware, software and solutions being rushed out to capture the promise of a multi-billion dollar IoT industry, vendors are under pressure to decrease their development time and speed up their time to market. Choices such as selecting the right infrastructure from the outset become even...

Sarah Dickinson
20 February 2019

Robert Ancell
19 February 2019

Easy IoT with Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi

Article Internet of Things

My current job involves me mostly working in the upper layers of the desktop software stack however I started out working in what was then called embedded engineering but now would probably be know as the Internet of Things (IoT). I worked on a number of projects which normally involved taking some industrial equipment (radio

Robert Ancell
19 February 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
31 January 2019

Where eagles snap – A closer look

Desktop Desktop

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about snap security, taking a journey through the eyes of a developer and handing over to a user who wants to install applications from the Snap Store. We discussed concepts like application confinement, interfaces, store review, and automatic updates. Today, we will look under the hood,...

Igor Ljubuncic
31 January 2019

cprov
27 November 2018

The power of installed-base snap metrics

Article Cloud and server

The Snap Store is able to provide insightful information to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) about usage of their snap applications. Our goal is to help snap publishers interact better with their users and make the most of their relationship. The primary metric provided by the store is the active installed-base. We...

cprov
27 November 2018

Canonical
18 October 2018

Infographic: Snaps in numbers

Article Cloud and server

Coinciding with the release of Ubuntu 18.10 today, we have celebrated the exceptional adoption of snaps by sharing the infographic below. From popular snaps to daily installs, this infographic demonstrates where, when and why users are installing and adopting the secure, Linux application format. For more commentary...

Canonical
18 October 2018

Igor Ljubuncic
10 October 2018

Snapistics – Snaps in numbers

Article Cloud and server

Actions speak louder than words. So do numbers. When we talk about snaps, we often focus on the application packages, and talk about their individual merits. However, a no less important – and interesting – facet is the collective numbers behind the scenes. They tell a compelling story for developers and users alike....

Igor Ljubuncic
10 October 2018

James Nunns
3 October 2018

Fing: future-proofing Fingbox the IoT home network monitoring device

Webinar Internet of Things

As many as 20.4 billion internet of things devices are estimated to be in use by 2020, according to Gartner, with consumer products making up 63% of this figure. A large amount of these will be low-cost devices, rushed out by manufacturers in order to capitalise on this opportunity. Unfortunately, this method typically pays no

James Nunns
3 October 2018

James Nunns
13 September 2018

Robots that run Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

The home for innovators, Ubuntu is a place where developers can create what previously lived solely in the realms of fiction. The internet of things, the cloud, and robots are world changing technologies and they’re all running Ubuntu. With an estimated worldwide spending figure of $103bn by 2020, according to IDC, the...

James Nunns
13 September 2018

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