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"snapcraft.io"

Eric Jensen
18 March 2019

The path to Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

At Canonical, helping customers overcome their challenges is what we do every day. In the IoT world, a common challenge we encounter is customers who are interested in transitioning to Ubuntu Core and the snapcraft.io ecosystem, but are unsure how to begin. This post covers the recommended approach. In most cases, it’s relatively easy for ...

Igor Ljubuncic
14 March 2019

Make your snap development faster

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

“All my centurions develop using snaps.” Julius Caesar By and large, software development can be an enjoyable process. Until you hit the first error, that is. At that point, you want to get past the stumbling blocks as quickly as possible and resume building your apps. A robust, flexible development framework can make a big ...

Martin Wimpress
9 March 2019

Fresh KDE snaps for February 2019

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

During February 2019 we celebrated another fine Plasma release with our friends at KDE by showcasing a month of KDE snaps on the Snapcraft Twitter and other social accounts. The KDE developers have done amazing work to create an SDK that simplifies making snaps of KDE applications and they also publish a common KDE framework ...

Igor Ljubuncic
7 March 2019

How to create snapshots of your snaps

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Data backups are arguably the most important part of one’s software setup. While many scenarios fall into the realm of if, data loss belongs in the when domain. Over time, every one of us will experience some kind of hardware failure, be it an optical disk, a hard disk or a lost phone. It is ...

Canonical
6 March 2019

Infographic: Snapcraft for developers

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

At the end of last year, we shared an infographic highlighting the adoption of snaps by users for their desktop, server or IoT devices. Those snaps wouldn’t be available without the growing number of developers building them behind the scenes. But why have developers, including those from some of the world’s largest software companies, de ...

Kyle Fazzari
28 February 2019

Building ROS 2 snaps with Colcon

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

The snapcraft CLI has supported building ROS1 snaps for a while via the catkin plugin. We supported the ROS2 betas via the ament plugin, but that was before Open Robotics had a ROS2 package repository setup, which meant that the ament plugin built the ROS2 underlay from source, and it was predictably dreadfully slow. However, ...

Igor Ljubuncic
28 February 2019

How to backup your application settings

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Tony Espy
25 February 2019

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

Edgex Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Sarah Dickinson
20 February 2019

How selecting the right Linux OS expedites IoT time to market

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Alan Pope
14 February 2019

Bootstrap Your Snap

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

People frequently tell me they’d like to make a snap of an application they care about. Whether it’s in person at events like FOSDEM, or online via IRC or Telegram, there are developers who want to share their Linux software creations with the world, and snaps are designed exactly for this. We have run a ...

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