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Alan Griffiths
24 July 2019

Mir support for Wayland

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

What is Mir, what is Wayland, do I care? Shells for graphical interfaces come in many forms, from digital signage and kiosks that just show a single full screen application; to desktop environments that manage multiple applications, multiple screens and multiple workspaces. Traditionally, shells are built from a number of closely coupled ...

Canonical
24 July 2019

BT turns to Canonical Ubuntu to enable next generation 5G Cloud Core

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Today, Canonical announces its Charmed OpenStack on Ubuntu has been selected by BT as a key component of its next generation 5G Core. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, will provide the open source virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) as part of BT’s Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) program, and the transition to a cloud-based Cor ...

Galem KAYO
23 July 2019

Getting started with Ubuntu Core – streaming video from a Raspberry Pi

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Artificial intelligence relies on machine vision just as much as human intelligence relies on vision. Image sensors are, therefore, crucial for AI applications because of the richness of data that they capture. Capturing and processing video and images at the edge is a capability that intelligent IoT applications need to deliver. In this ...

Sarah Dickinson
23 July 2019

Community Snapcrafter on MicroK8s, summits and the evolving nature of snaps

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

In January 2018, Dani Llewellyn joined her first Snapcraft Summit in Seattle in her role as a community Snapcrafter. At that event, we discussed her views on everything snap related from most requested snaps, new feature requests and popular discussion topics. Since then, snaps has grown across every metric and seen numerous new high prof ...

Carmine Rimi
22 July 2019

Digest #2019.07.22 – Kubeflow and Conferences, 2019

AI Ubuntu tech blog

Kubeflow at OSCON 2019 – Over 10 sessions! Covering security, pipelines, productivity, ML ops and more. Some of the sessions are led by end-users, which means you’ll get the real deal about using Kubeflow in your production solution Kubeflow at KubeCon Europe 2019 in Barcelona – The top Kubeflow events from Kubecon in Barcelona, 2019. ...

Galem KAYO
19 July 2019

Robot lifecycle management with Ubuntu

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Lifecycle management entails fulfilling changing requirements over time. However, there is a gap that the existing robot development frameworks do not address, making it challenging to tackle system-level requirements (fault tolerance, system safety, maintainability, interoperability or reusability etc…). Ubuntu Core aims at closing this ...

Sarah Dickinson
18 July 2019

CMake leverages the Snapcraft Summit with Travis CI to build snaps

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. It is used to control the software compilation process and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in any compiler environment.  While some users of CMake want to stay up to date with the latest release, others want ...

Igor Ljubuncic
18 July 2019

Handy snapcraft features: Remote build

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

As you probably know, there are many ways you can build snaps: locally using snapcraft, with CI systems like Travis, through Launchpad, and also via the free online Snapcraft Build Service. Now, a new preview feature called Remote build also allows you to build snaps for multiple architectures directly from the command line. This has ...

Alex Cattle
18 July 2019

How to build a lightweight system container cluster

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

LXD, the system container manager, developed by Canonical and shipped by default with Ubuntu, makes it possible to create many containers of various Linux distributions and manage them in a way similar to virtual machines (VMs) but with lower overhead costs associated with them. Unlike VMs, containers have the benefit of using a shared ke ...

Sarah Dickinson
15 July 2019

Octave turns to snaps to reduce dependency on Linux distribution maintainers

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Octave is a numerical computing environment largely compatible with MATLAB. As free software, Octave runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD, and Windows. At the 2019 Snapcraft Summit, Mike Miller and Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso of the Octave team worked on creating an Octave snap in stable and beta versions for the Snap Store.  As Mike and Jordi ...

Carmine Rimi
11 July 2019

Deploying Kubernetes at the edge – Part I: building blocks

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Edge computing continues to gain momentum to help solve unique challenges across telco, media, transportation, logistics, agricultural and other market segments. If you are new to edge computing architectures, of which there are several, the following diagram is a simple abstraction for emerging architectures: In this diagram you can see ...

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