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Blog posts tagged
"Snaps"

Kyle Fazzari
13 April 2017

ROS production: our prototype [2/5]

Internet of Things Article

This is the second blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we discussed why Ubuntu Core was a good fit for production robotics. In this post we’ll be on classic Ubuntu, creating the example ROS prototype that we’ll use throughout the rest of the series as we work toward using ...

David Callé
11 April 2017

Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 and 26

Desktop Article

As part as our mission to get snaps running everywhere, we are pleased to announce that support for snaps has now officially landed in Fedora, starting with Fedora 24 and up. Big thanks to Neal Gompa who has been instrumental in landing snapd packages in the Fedora archive! Install your first snap on Fedora 1) ...

David Callé
30 March 2017

Snaps are now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop and server

Internet of Things Article

The snapd team recently announced a new release of snapd supporting Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) for servers and desktop (i386, amd64). The snapd service is what makes possible the installation and management of applications packaged as snaps. In a nutshell, if you have systems using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, welcome to a brand new world! How ...

Michael Hall
28 March 2017

Machine learning with snaps

Cloud and server Article

Late last year Amazon introduce a new EC2 image customized for Machine Learning (ML) workloads. To make things easier for data scientists and researchers, Amazon worked on including a selection of ML libraries into these images so they wouldn’t have to go through the process of downloading and installing them (and often times building the ...

Kyle Fazzari
22 March 2017

Distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps

Internet of Things Article

One of the key tenets of snaps is that they bundle their dependencies. The fact that they’re self-contained helps their transactional-ness: upgrading or rolling back is essentially just a matter of unmounting one snap and mounting the other. However, historically this was also one of their key downsides: every snap must be standalone. For ...

Didier Roche
9 March 2017

Fresh Snaps from February 2017

Internet of Things Article

It’s that time of the month! Didier has put together a selection of top ten snaps written in February ranging from blockchain to graphical applications. To recap for those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats ...

Maarten Ectors
8 March 2017

How to become a LimeSDR innovator?

Internet of Things Article

After an amazing week at MWC, I got people reaching out to me that want to be a LimeSDR innovator. Here is a short guide on what to do and what we are working on next. Start by getting your LimeSDR. At Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, we started a new open source standard to ...

didrocks
9 February 2017

8 KDE snaps written in January

Desktop Article

It’s a special this month. Instead of our round-up of desktop snaps, we’re focusing on KDE! 8 KDE snaps written in January have been selected from a Tetris-like game to an education platform on countries. To recap for those of you that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their ...

Amrisha Prashar
3 February 2017

The first consumer device to run snaps: Nextcloud box

Internet of Things Article

The Nextcloud box is a private cloud and IoT solution for home users, giving consumers a way to take back control over their personal data. It’s an app-enabled home gateway and the first Ubuntu-Core-enabled consumer device. Snaps and Ubuntu Core are key enablers of the “out-of-the-box” solution, sustainable auto-update and security functi ...

David Callé
9 January 2017

How to snap: introducing classic confinement

Desktop Article

Last Thursday, January 5, the snapd team was delighted to announce a new release of snapd (2.20), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides the snap command. It’s time we take a look at the most prominent feature of this release: classic confinement. A new relaxed security policy for snaps, aimed at ...

David Callé
12 December 2016

snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back

Internet of Things Article

Last Thursday, December 8, the snapd team was happy to announce a new release of snapd (2.18), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides the snap command. It’s time we take a look at what makes this release stand out. A brief tour of new snap commands (and the improved snap find) On ...

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