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Ubuntu Core – how to enable aliases for your snaps commands
by David Callé on 28 January 2017
We are happy to announce that a new version of Ubuntu Core, based on snapd 2.21, has been released to the stable snaps channel yesterday. As with any stable...
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ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core
by Kyle Fazzari on 27 January 2017
Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf. I even tried building ROS Indigo from source for arm64 about a year ago,...
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Webinar: 2017 – what’s in store for IoT?
by Amrisha Prashar on 12 December 2016
It’s nearing the end of the year! Time to take a breather and plan for 2017. As part of our ‘IoT builders’ webinar series, we have asked some of the most...
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snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back
by David Callé on 12 December 2016
Last Thursday, December 8, the snapd team was happy to announce a new release of snapd (2.18), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides...
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Christmas-music-carousel-snap
by Didier Roche on 8 December 2016
Ding ding ding! It’s Christmas time, and as part of the festive competition we’re hosting that asks you to build a seasonal snap on your RaspberryPi…we...
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Jamming with Ubuntu Core
by April Wang on 7 December 2016
We celebrated the launch of Ubuntu Core 16 hackathon, or shall we say Snapathon, that took place in Shenzhen between 26-27th November. The 30+ hour gathering...
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Competition: Build a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi
by Amrisha Prashar on 1 December 2016
And our present for you this Christmas is… a competition to create a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi 2 or 3! We’d love to see the entries that are the most...
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10 desktop snaps written in November
by Didier Roche on 1 December 2016
It’s that time of the month again where we round up our top ten snaps from the last month! For those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to...
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Ubuntu SDK meets snapcraft
by Benjamin Zeller on 28 November 2016
Everyone who has followed Ubuntu lately for sure stumbled across the snappy technology, which does not only bring the new cross-distro packaging format “snap”...
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Pycom and Canonical to enable LPWAN communications via snaps
by Maarten Ectors on 25 November 2016
Pycom is the company behind the disruptive products such as the LoPy and SiPy which enable developers to easily get LoRa and Sigfox low-power WAN (LPWAN)...
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Making your snaps available to the store using snapcraft
by Sergio Schvezov on 15 November 2016
Now that Ubuntu Core has been officially released, it might be a good time to get your snaps into the Store! Delivery and Store Concepts So let’s start with a...