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Guest
9 November 2016

How to use snaps when collecting IoT data with Predix Time Series

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Ilya Drabenia, a Technical Lead at Altoros. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Snaps, designed by Canonical, are intended for packaging applications and their dependencies, along with the instructions for running these applications. In this article, we focus on ...


Tom Macfarlane
7 November 2016

Yakkety Yak

Ubuntu Featured

The Yakkety Yak 16.10 release animal artwork is now available to download here. 16.10 release animal Origami Yak Initial design exploration Design development – head detail Final Yak Colourways T-shirt design ...


Canonical
4 November 2016

Cloud Chatter: October 2016

Cloud and server Article

Welcome to our October edition. We begin with details on our latest release, version 16.10. Next up, we bring you a webinar exploring how to manage diverse workloads with Juju, followed by our new live kernel patching feature. We also have a number of exciting announcements with partners including DataART and ARM. If you are ...


didrocks
3 November 2016

10 IoT-focused desktop snaps written in October

Desktop Article

This month we’ve selected 10 of our favourite IoT targeted snaps! And to recap for those of you that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats such as .deb, .rpm, and others. They are secure, isolated and ...


Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

Ubuntu 16.10 brings Unity 8 to desktop and more snap installations

Desktop Article

The recent release of Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak includes a developer preview of Unity 8 for desktop and the installation of snaps! The universal ‘snap’ Linux packages combine both container and packaging technologies to give developers a single format to distribute their apps and services from cloud to personal computing and IoT. Some of t ...


Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

Ubuntu IoT vertical pages

Internet of Things Article

Ubuntu has long been used across various areas of IoT: robotics, digital signage and edge gateways. To celebrate this presence we’ve built dedicated pages showcasing how Ubuntu has been powering smart IoT. The pages bring to life our expertise in these fields through the deployments and stories of our partners, customer case studies and w ...


Canonical
3 November 2016

Ubuntu Core 16 delivers foundation for secure IoT

Internet of Things News

    Regular and reliable updates address security issues in IoT devices Snap confinement ensures applications are trusted only with necessary data Meets industry and regulatory requirements for updates, operations and security Provides mechanisms for ISV, manufacturer and enterprise control of updates Enables app stores and ecosystems for ...


Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

azeti using Ubuntu Core for process automation in Industrial IoT

Internet of Things Article

Do you require IoT technologies to be running smoothly 24 hours a day? Can you not afford mission critical scenarios? Azeti, a provider of IoT technologies take these situations seriously and as a result have chosen Ubuntu core to provide more stable, efficient and secure distribution to the IoT equipment they monitor and maintain. azeti ...


Udi Nachmany
3 November 2016

Open Telekom Cloud joins Certified Public Cloud

Canonical announcements Article

Official Ubuntu images for public cloud VMs, with European data sovereignty through T-Systems’ Open Telekom Cloud Data sovereignty is one of the hot topics in cloud computing—but especially over the past year as new EU regulations have come into play. At the same time, US-based public cloud providers, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM and ...


Canonical
3 November 2016

Join the Ubuntu community at UbuCon Europe in Essen, Germany

Phone and tablet Article

This year was the year of the first UbuCon Summit which took place in Pasadena in January. The next big Ubuntu event is just around the corner: the very first UbuCon Europe in Essen, Germany on the 19th and 20th November. The first international UbuCon in Europe UbuCon Europe is the first conference dedicated to ...


Guest
2 November 2016

Static code analyser for Ubuntu

Desktop Article

This is a guest post by Ekaterina Milovidova, from viva64. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Static code analysis is the process of detecting errors and flaws in the source code of programs. There is a large number of static analysis tools created for various programming languages th ...