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31 posts from April 2017
ROS production: our prototype [2/5]
By Kyle Fazzari, 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...
General availability of Kubernetes 1.6 on Ubuntu
By Marco Ceppi, 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...
A new vantage point
By Jane Silber, 12 April 2017
I joined Canonical as COO in 2004, excited by the vision of Ubuntu and the possibilities that could unfold from the software, the collaboration with the open...
Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 and 26
By David Callé, 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...
FAQs: Ensuring the ongoing security compliance of Ubuntu
By Dustin Kirkland, 11 April 2017
Canonical recently announced that the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017. Following the end-of-life of Ubuntu...
RobotCheers uses Ubuntu to create hospitality robots
By Canonical, 11 April 2017
Meet Spiro. Spiro greets you after a long day of travel, answers questions related to your stay and can give you a guided tour – in essence, all that a hotel...
The smartest industry 4.0 crane
By Maarten Ectors, 10 April 2017
Lots of big name industrial players are launching IoT platforms and are hopeful that their big data analytics, open APIs, and other features will catapult...
Fresh Snaps from March 2017
By didrocks, 6 April 2017
It’s that time of the month! We’ve put together a selection of top ten snaps written in March ranging from snapping an electron app through to a simple screen...
From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core
By Kyle Fazzari, 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Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct.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...
Growing Ubuntu for cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence
By Canonical, 5 April 2017
This is a post by Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu and Canonical We are wrapping up an excellent quarter and an excellent year for the company, with...
How Bosch Rexroth is innovating the PLC market
By Maarten Ectors, 5 April 2017
Last year I introduced a new concept called App Logic Controller or ALC. You basically run an app store on a PLC type of device and as such any industrial...
Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel
By Udi Nachmany, 5 April 2017
Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most...