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Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu Core"


Dustin Kirkland
10 August 2015

Golden Ratio calculated to 2 trillion digits, on Ubuntu, in the Cloud

Cloud and server Article

The Golden Ratio is one of the oldest and most visible irrational numbers known to humanity.  Pi is perhaps more famous, but the Golden Ratio is found in more of our art, architecture, and culture throughout human history.I think of the Golden Rat ...


Maarten Ectors
5 August 2015

The first app-enabled spider

Internet of Things Article

If you are into robot spiders then the erle-spider is something to look forward to. It will be the first app-enabled Snappy Ubuntu Core and ROS powered robot spider. Curious to see what people will do with it   ...


Maarten Ectors
3 August 2015

Java on Snappy

Internet of Things Article

Snapcraft is a new tool allowing developers to easily and quickly package their favourite projects as Snappy Apps or Snaps. Since lots of enterprise developers are using Java for IoT, we wanted to show a preview of how to package a Java war, Tomcat and a JDK as a Snap. The video also shows how to deploy a ...


Maarten Ectors
23 July 2015

More Juju, Big Data and Snappy Beauty from Dataart

Cloud and server Article

What do you get when you combine Juju with Spark & Apache Zeppelin, Raspberry Pi with Snappy, Bluetooth Low Energy, DeviceHive and a TI SensorTag? Check out the video from Dataart. ...


Dustin Kirkland
20 July 2015

Prime Time: Docker, Juju, and Snappy Ubuntu Core

Cloud and server Article

As you probably remember from grade school math class, primes are numbers that are only divisible by 1 and themselves.  2, 3, 5, 7, and 11 are the first 5 prime numbers, for example.Many computer operations, such as public-key cryptography, depends entirely on prime numbers.  In fact, RSA encryption, invented in 1978, uses a modulo of a p ...


Canonical
12 June 2015

Zabbix + IoT/Snappy: allows users to feel the pulse of things

Cloud and server Article

Things around us are becoming smarter every day and many tasks we use to perform manually are becoming automated. As our dependency on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology grows, we need to make sure such devices work reliably, securely and don’t fail with the tasks we entrust to them. Implementation of such control requires ...


Canonical
5 June 2015

IoT: RIOT and Snappy connect the smallest of devices

Internet of Things Article

RIOT is a smart and developer-friendly open source operating system designed specifically for the Internet of Things. RIOT is vendor-independent and community-driven, based on a microkernel architecture that allows C and C++ application programming. In contrast to other operating systems with similar memory footprint RIOT provides both fu ...


Canonical
3 June 2015

So You Want to Write a Snappy App?

Cloud and server Article

Introduction If you are anything like me, you love to write apps for Ubuntu. Like the Ubuntu phone two years ago, snappy is a bit of a green field in terms of IoT related apps. If you are like me and have a Beagle Bone and a Raspberry Pi 2 and several old netbooks and ...


Canonical
2 June 2015

Intel and Canonical collaborate around IoT gateways

Internet of Things News

Intel and Canonical are collaborating around Intel® IOT Gateways and Snappy Ubuntu Core. The Intel® IOT Gateway will come with support for Snap Stores. The Snap Store supports a model where a range of applications will be deployed to a gateway.  In this model, the gateway becomes a platform for multi applications (home, health, media, ...


Canonical
2 June 2015

BQ launches the new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition

Phone and tablet Article

In February of this year, BQ, the European technology company, launched the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, the world´s first smartphone featuring the Ubuntu operating system This latest model, the Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition, marks the second handset collaboration between Canonical and BQ; now working together on the launch of a convergent ...


Maarten Ectors
28 May 2015

GE’s First Build is the future of smart home appliances…

Internet of Things Article

First Build is the GE team that is responsible for the Chillhub, the first smart fridge with apps. The Chillhub runs Ubuntu Core and as such any Ubuntu developer can make Snappy Apps for it. This week part of the Canonical IoT team has been visiting First Build’s headquarters in Louisville and they have seen ...