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"snapcraft"

Kyle Fazzari
22 March 2017

Distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Maarten Ectors
13 March 2017

This elevator catches intruders, saves lives, generates money, …

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

The world is becoming software defined and most people don’t realise what this means until software apps and app stores invade their day to day objects like elevators. This blog post is about the smartest elevator demoed at MWC17 and the future of elevators with app stores. What happens if we add artificial intelligence to ...

Didier Roche
9 March 2017

Fresh Snaps from February 2017

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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
23 February 2017

MWC17: The future of industrial IoT

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

The internet of things, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, big data, robots/drones, blockchain, industry 4.0 and other hype terms are popping up everywhere. Our partners will be showcasing real industrial solutions that go far beyond the hype and are based on these cutting edge technologies. How to tell industrial IoT reality apa ...

didrocks
9 February 2017

8 KDE snaps written in January

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Sergio Schvezov
3 February 2017

Snapcraft 2.26 has been released

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Hello snapcrafters! We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.26 of snapcraft has been released: https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.26 Contributions This release has seen some contributions from outside of the snapcraft core team, so we want to give a shout out to these folks, here’s a team thank you for: Björn Tilleni ...

David Callé
2 February 2017

Run scripts during snapcraft builds with “scriptlets”

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Please note: this blog post is over 5 years old and is out of date. Scriptlets have been superseded by Overrides. If you have snapped an application, or tried to snap an application, you know that Snapcraft heavily depends on built-in plugins for specific build systems and that it provides a large array of choices ...

David Callé
9 January 2017

How to snap: introducing classic confinement

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Amrisha Prashar
5 January 2017

10 desktop snaps written in December

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

It’s that time of the month! Evan Dandrea put together a selection of top ten snaps written in December. To recap for those of you 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 such as .deb, .rpm, ...

David Callé
12 December 2016

snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Amrisha Prashar
1 December 2016

Competition: Build a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

And our present for you this Christmas is… a competition to create a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi 2 or 3! We’d love to see the entries that are the most festive, original and work across devices – it could be snow falling, Christmas carols, Santa Claus snaps – anything that is festive! The ...

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