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Internet of Things
Why language choices can be irrelevant when choosing the right IoT OS
by Sarah Dickinson on 10 May 2017
This is the first in a series of two blogs exploring the finding from the latest Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. A couple of months ago we posted a...
Internet of Things
ROS production: create Ubuntu Core image with snap preinstalled [5/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 9 May 2017
This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a gadget snap to allow confined access to the...
Internet of Things
ROS production: obtaining confined access to the Turtlebot [4/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 27 April 2017
This is the fourth blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a snap of our prototype, and released it into the store. In...
Internet of Things
ROS production: our prototype as a snap [3/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 21 April 2017
This is the third blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we came up with a simple ROS prototype. In this post we’ll package that...
Cloud and server
How we commoditised GPUs for Kubernetes
by Samuel Cozannet on 19 April 2017
[Edit 2017-04-20] A careful reader informed me (thanks for that HN user puzzle) that it is no longer required to run in privileged mode to access the GPUs in...
Internet of Things
ROS production: our prototype [2/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 13 April 2017
This is the second blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we discussed why Ubuntu Core was a good fit for production robotics. In...
Cloud and server
General availability of Kubernetes 1.6 on Ubuntu
by Marco Ceppi on 12 April 2017
We are proud to release the latest Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) supporting Kubernetes version 1.6.1! Kubernetes 1.6 is a major milestone and it...
Desktop
Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 and 26
by David Callé on 11 April 2017
As part as our mission to get snaps running everywhere, we are pleased to announce that support for snaps has now officially landed in Fedora, starting with...
Internet of Things
From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core
by Kyle Fazzari on 6 April 2017
Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct. For latest updated documentation about robotics in Canonical...
Cloud and server
Ubuntu Core in LXD containers
by Stéphane Graber on 27 February 2017
What’s Ubuntu Core? Ubuntu Core is a version of Ubuntu that’s fully transactional and entirely based on snap packages. Most of the system is read-only. All...
Cloud and server
Snapcraft 2.27 has been released
by Sergio Schvezov on 17 February 2017
Hello snapcrafters! We are pleased to announce the release snapcraft 2.27: https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.27 Contributions This release has seen...
Internet of Things
Eclipse foundation: IoT developer survey
by Amrisha Prashar on 13 February 2017
The third annual IoT Developer Survey, hosted by Eclipse IoT has just been launched. In previous years it has provided interesting insights about how...