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Research: Consumers are terrible at updating their connected devices
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 15 December 2016
Many developers and manufacturers of IoT connected devices will know that consumers are bad at updating the firmware on their connected devices, and that this...
Webinar: 2017 – what’s in store for IoT?
By Amrisha Prashar, 12 December 2016
It’s nearing the end of the year! Time to take a breather and plan for 2017. As part of our ‘IoT builders’ webinar series, we have asked some of the most...
snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back
By David Callé, 12 December 2016
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...
IoT Builders webinar series – 2016 recap!
By Amrisha Prashar, 9 December 2016
With it nearing the end of the year we thought we’d take this opportunity to recap on all the ‘IoT builders’ webinar series we’ve hosted in 2016. The series...
Christmas-music-carousel-snap
By Didier Roche, 8 December 2016
Ding ding ding! It’s Christmas time, and as part of the festive competition we’re hosting that asks you to build a seasonal snap on your RaspberryPi…we...
Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps
By Guest, 8 December 2016
This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Security: A Comprehensive Overview
By Dustin Kirkland, 8 December 2016
From Linux kernel livepatches to encryption to ASLR to compiler optimizations and configuration hardening, we strive to ensure that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is the...
Mounting your home directory in LXD
By Canonical, 8 December 2016
As of LXD stable 2.0.8 and feature release 2.6, LXD has support for various UID and GID map related manipulaions. A common question is: “How do I bind-mount...
Webinar: Running an enterprise-grade OpenStack without the headaches
By Tom Callway, 7 December 2016
Watch Webinar On-demand In Canonical’s latest on-demand webinar, we explore how to build and manage highly scalable OpenStack clouds with BootStack on a...
Jamming with Ubuntu Core
By April Wang, 7 December 2016
We celebrated the launch of Ubuntu Core 16 hackathon, or shall we say Snapathon, that took place in Shenzhen between 26-27th November. The 30+ hour gathering...
LXD 2.0: LXD and OpenStack [11/12]
By Stéphane Graber, 7 December 2016
This is the eleventh blog post in this series about LXD 2.0. Introduction First of all, sorry for the delay. It took quite a long time before I finally...