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16 posts from April 2017
Cloud Chatter: April 2017
By James Donner, 28 April 2017
Welcome to our April edition. We begin with our recent release of Ubuntu 17.04 supporting the widest range of container capabilities. We have a selection of...
Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing
By Sarah Dickinson, 24 April 2017
Fragmentation is the nature of the beast in the IoT space with a variety of non-interoperable protocols, devices and vendors which are the natural results of...
How we commoditised GPUs for Kubernetes
By Samuel Cozannet, 19 April 2017
[Edit 2017-04-20] A careful reader informed me (thanks for that HN user puzzle) that it is no longer required to run in privileged mode to access the GPUs in...
Industrial IoT: manage and control remote assets
By Guest, 17 April 2017
This is a guest post by Florian Hoenigschmid, Director of azeti. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com...
A new vantage point
By Jane Silber, 12 April 2017
I joined Canonical as COO in 2004, excited by the vision of Ubuntu and the possibilities that could unfold from the software, the collaboration with the open...
Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 and 26
By David Callé, 11 April 2017
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...
FAQs: Ensuring the ongoing security compliance of Ubuntu
By Dustin Kirkland, 11 April 2017
Canonical recently announced that the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017. Following the end-of-life of Ubuntu...
RobotCheers uses Ubuntu to create hospitality robots
By Canonical, 11 April 2017
Meet Spiro. Spiro greets you after a long day of travel, answers questions related to your stay and can give you a guided tour – in essence, all that a hotel...
The smartest industry 4.0 crane
By Maarten Ectors, 10 April 2017
Lots of big name industrial players are launching IoT platforms and are hopeful that their big data analytics, open APIs, and other features will catapult...
Fresh Snaps from March 2017
By didrocks, 6 April 2017
It’s that time of the month! We’ve put together a selection of top ten snaps written in March ranging from snapping an electron app through to a simple screen...
How Bosch Rexroth is innovating the PLC market
By Maarten Ectors, 5 April 2017
Last year I introduced a new concept called App Logic Controller or ALC. You basically run an app store on a PLC type of device and as such any industrial...
Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel
By Udi Nachmany, 5 April 2017
Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most...