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IoT: RIOT and Snappy connect the smallest of devices
By Canonical, 5 June 2015
RIOT is a smart and developer-friendly open source operating system designed specifically for the Internet of Things. RIOT is vendor-independent and...
New features in Juju 1.23
By Jorge O. Castro, 3 June 2015
A little over a month ago Juju 1.23 hit the prime time and brought with it a flurry of bug fixes and new features. Below are a highlight of the exciting new...
Cisco and Canonical Collaborate on Policy-Based OpenStack Clouds
By Canonical, 3 June 2015
Canonical is pleased that Cisco, developer of the Application Centric Infrastructure is joining the Ubuntu Cloud OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL). Cisco...
Juju Support for Google Cloud Platform
By Udi Nachmany, 3 June 2015
As you may have noticed in our release notes, the recent release of a stable 1.23.2 Juju core (and its 1.23.3 follow-on) is packed with goodies such as...
So You Want to Write a Snappy App?
By Canonical, 3 June 2015
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...
Intel and Canonical collaborate around IoT gateways
By Canonical, 2 June 2015
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...
BQ launches the new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition
By Canonical, 2 June 2015
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...
Juniper and Canonical: Converged Clouds and NFVs
By Tom Callway, 29 May 2015
OpenStack has quickly become the obvious choice to build Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms for hybrid and private cloud solutions, as well as...
Phone updates: May
By Amrisha Prashar, 29 May 2015
The full list of Ubuntu Phone updates from May are provided below. Indicators Icons are now all monochromatic Web Browser Bottom edge gesture to reveal tabs...
GE’s First Build is the future of smart home appliances…
By Maarten Ectors, 28 May 2015
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...
Introducing pylxd
By Canonical, 27 May 2015
In part of my work for nova-compute-lxd, we use a combination of httplib, UNIX domain sockets, and JSON to talk to the LXD daemon via the REST API. Talking to...