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Igor Ljubuncic
28 February 2019

How to backup your application settings

Desktop Article

A reliable data backup plan should be an integral part of everyone’s software arsenal. If you accidentally delete your files, or something goes wrong in your setup, you will have your data safely stored in another location. This will allow you to recover quickly and resume working. Likewise, if you suffer a hardware failure or ...


Calvin Hartwell
27 February 2019

Single-Node Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s and Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

Introduction The goal of this blog post is to explain how to setup and run Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s on-top to provide a single-node Kubernetes host for development and testing. In the last few months Ubuntu Server 18.04 has been ported to run the Raspberry Pi 2/3 which means we can ...


Stéphane Graber
26 February 2019

Using LXD on your Chromebook

Cloud and server Article

Introduction On supported Chromebook, starting with Chrome OS 69, a new feature called Linux Apps was introduced. This allows Chrome OS users, on supported to install normal Linux applications from the Debian repository and have them integrate with the underlying Chrome OS desktop. The feature has evolved quite a bit since its introductio ...


Canonical
26 February 2019

Ubuntu is EAL2 certified

Desktop Desktop

Canonical has received Common Criteria EAL2 certification. The evaluation covers a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS on one of the supported platforms listed in the certification report. Common Criteria (CC) for Information Technology Security Evaluation is an international standard (ISO/IEC IS 15408) for Computer security certification ...


Sarah Dickinson
26 February 2019

Securing IoT device data against physical access

Internet of Things Article

Security remains the number one concern when designing and deploying IoT devices. High profile breaches continue to occur and concerns cease to subside. For any organisation, security needs to be front of mind and considered from the start – not as an afterthought. Having no mechanism in which to address security concerns can be as ...


Tony Espy
25 February 2019

EdgeX Foundry, the common framework for IoT edge computing, now available as a snap

Edgex Article

EdgeX Foundry is now available as a snap, making it available to millions of Linux users and developers via the ever-expanding Snap Store. EdgeX Foundry is a vendor-neutral open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation building a common open framework for IoT edge computing. EdgeX provides the ability to extract data from a multitude ...


Anthony Dillon
20 February 2019

Design and Web team summary – 20 February 2019

Cloud and server Design

Snapcraft squad Report a Snap Last year, a snap was found in the Snap Store using computing resources for bitcoin mining without user consent. This software was retired from the Store after further investigation and highlighted the need for snapcraft.io users to report potential snaps violating trademark, copyright or terms and conditions ...


Sarah Dickinson
20 February 2019

How selecting the right Linux OS expedites IoT time to market

Internet of Things Article

With a proliferation of related hardware, software and solutions being rushed out to capture the promise of a multi-billion dollar IoT industry, vendors are under pressure to decrease their development time and speed up their time to market. Choices such as selecting the right infrastructure from the outset become even more important duri ...


Robert Ancell
19 February 2019

Easy IoT with Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi

Internet of Things Article

My current job involves me mostly working in the upper layers of the desktop software stack however I started out working in what was then called embedded engineering but now would probably be know as the Internet of Things (IoT). I worked on a number of projects which normally involved taking some industrial equipment (radio ...


Eric Jensen
15 February 2019

The forecast is robots

Internet of Things Article

Robots are an increasingly important part of our lives, in more ways than we realise. I’m not talking just about Roombas, or the toy robots that inhabit the wish lists of the world’s children (and the young at heart). Robots are increasingly behind the scenes, powering the modern world we experience daily. From clothing to ...


Alex Hung
14 February 2019

ACPI AML Runtime Debugger in Ubuntu 18.04 (x64)

Desktop Article

ACPICA is an open-source project that provides an operating system (OS)-independent reference implementation. It also contains a list of utilities such as ASL compiler (iasl), acpiexec (an AML emulator). However, AML debugging on Linux in run-time wasn’t provided in ACPICA until Linux Kernel 4.13. Enabling AML Debugging The aml-debugger.t ...