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23 posts from May 2017
The Turtlebot 3 has launched
By Kyle Fazzari, 31 May 2017
If you’re familiar with ROS (Robot Operating System), chances are you’re also familiar with the Turtlebot. The first version of the Turtlebot was created back...
Our open source websites
By Robin Winslow, 31 May 2017
Nowadays free software is everywhere – from browsers to encryption software to operating systems. Even so, it is still relatively rare for the code behind...
Build.snapcraft.io gets your code ready to distribute in minutes
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 30 May 2017
The public beta release of build.snapcraft.io is now open! build.snapcraft.io is an easy and free to use platform for publishing your software to the tens of...
Redefining the Developer Event
By Alexia Emmanoulopoulou, 24 May 2017
By Randall Ross, Ubuntu Evangelist We’ve all been to “those other” developer events: Sitting in a room watching a succession of never-ending slide...
Hacking Through Machine Learning at the OpenPOWER Developer Congress
By Alexia Emmanoulopoulou, 23 May 2017
By Sumit Gupta, Vice President, IBM Cognitive Systems 10 years ago, every CEO leaned over to his or her CIO and CTO and said, “we got to figure out big data.”...
Visual Studio Code is now available as a snap on Ubuntu
By David Callé, 19 May 2017
There is a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Visual Studio Code. A versatile and open source code editor Launched in 2015 by Microsoft, Visual Studio Code...
Simplenote gives a new life to your notes
By David Callé, 17 May 2017
There’s a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Simplenote. Write in Markdown, sync, tag, collaborate and publish If you haven’t tried it yet, Simplenote brings...
Ubuntu ranked as 2nd most used IoT OS by Eclipse Foundation survey
By Sarah Dickinson, 17 May 2017
Last week we posted a blog on programming languages following the Eclipse Foundation 2017 IoT survey results. This week we look at the findings from a...
DataArt release new version of Alexa Virtual Device for Raspberry Pi
By Guest, 16 May 2017
This is a guest post by DataArt. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com This project aims to provide the...
Atom is now available as a snap for Ubuntu
By David Callé, 11 May 2017
There’s a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Atom. The hackable editor, backed by GitHub Launched in 2014, Atom has been rapidly adopted by a large community...
PCCW Global chooses Ubuntu OpenStack and Juju
By Canonical, 11 May 2017
PCCW Global plans expansion to deliver enterprise, edge applications, NFV and IoT enablement to customers Integrated Canonical and CPLANE NETWORKS solution...
Why language choices can be irrelevant when choosing the right IoT OS
By Sarah Dickinson, 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...