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May’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team in May 2017: Introducing a faster BBC News front page Brick Block Create storyboards for your animations Introducing the Citymapper Smartbus Design Better Data Tables Screen Sizes: Viewport Sizes and Pixel Densities for Popular Devices Lost My Name Design System GitHub’s Public Speaking Cu ...


Kyle Fazzari
31 May 2017

The Turtlebot 3 has launched

Internet of Things Article

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 in 2010 to serve as an inexpensive platform for learning ROS. This was followed in 2012 by the Turtlebot 2, which has since become the reference platform for learning ROS. ...


Robin Winslow
31 May 2017

Our open source websites

Ubuntu Featured

Nowadays free software is everywhere – from browsers to encryption software to operating systems. Even so, it is still relatively rare for the code behind websites and services to be opened up. Stepping into the open Three years ago we started to move our website projects to Github, and we also took this opportunity to ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
30 May 2017

Build.snapcraft.io gets your code ready to distribute in minutes

Cloud and server Article

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 millions of machines running Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuSE, Arch, Gentoo, Yocto and others. whichever Operating System they’re running, the behaviour of your app is going to be th ...


Redefining the Developer Event

Cloud and server Article

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 presentations. Engagement with the audience, if any, is minimal. We leave with some tips and tools that we might be able to put into practice, but frankly, we attended because we were ...


Hacking Through Machine Learning at the OpenPOWER Developer Congress

Cloud and server Article

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.” Five years ago, they leaned over and said, “we got to figure out cloud.” This year, every CEO is asking their team to figure ...


David Callé
19 May 2017

Visual Studio Code is now available as a snap on Ubuntu

Desktop Article

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 has imposed itself as one of the preferred code editors in the developer community. Cross-platform (powered by Electron), it features a marketplace of more than 3000 extensions where ...


David Callé
17 May 2017

Simplenote gives a new life to your notes

Desktop Article

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 a solid note taking utility to your day-to-day open source toolkit. Don’t be fooled by a simple appearance, as it’s one of the most comprehensive editing suite around, especially fo ...


Sarah Dickinson
17 May 2017

Ubuntu ranked as 2nd most used IoT OS by Eclipse Foundation survey

Internet of Things Article

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 business perspective which highlight a number of IoT trends emerging from the wide ranging survey from key industries, growth of new technologies, most common concerns and more. The 2017 ...


Guest
16 May 2017

DataArt release new version of Alexa Virtual Device for Raspberry Pi

Internet of Things Article

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 ability to bring Alexa to any Linux device including embedded systems like Raspberry Pi or DragonBoard boards. The binary release is packed into a snap package, which is a perfect ...


David Callé
11 May 2017

Atom is now available as a snap for Ubuntu

Desktop Article

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 and is considered one of the top language agnostic code editors. It offers a constantly growing library of 6 000+ addons for all purposes, from themes to ...