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Ubuntu Touch kalkulator na Ubuntuu 15.04.

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http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/01/ubun ... d-platform

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/01/20/ ... et-things/

The Internet of Things promises to immerse us in a world of intelligent everyday objects, from self-regulating heating system to weight-watching kettles.

Now Ubuntu is pitching with a plan to be the beating heart at the centre of this connected world.

Announced today is a version of Ubuntu Core — the smaller version of Ubuntu — for smart devices. The company say the tiny OS, which takes up just 40MB of RAM, will gift innovators, investors and early adopters with ‘the power of its cloud platform’ at the device level.

A number of open robotics projects and drones are already said to be using Ubuntu Core, with many more set to follow.

‘Snappy’ Ubuntu Core is Canonical’s hyper-minimal version of the Ubuntu OS with transactional, easily reversible updates and a tighter, mobile-esque security framework.

It’s already being talked up on the server side, where it can server as the remote computing that ties ‘things’ together. Now the tiny OS is pouching to become more than just the glue between the seams of ‘things': it wants to the very foundation of devices themselves.

Ubuntu Core for Things gives device makers a consistent, dependable and easy updatable operating system on which to shape their ideas. It’s a single identical platform from cloud to device (convergence, yo) — a powerful proposition in a sector still squabbling over whose implementation should win out.

And that’s what makes Ubuntu’s play more appealing than, say Intel and Samsung’s Tizen: uniformity at all stages of the process: from development to deployment to updating. Custom firmware once specific to a single device would be replaced by a uniform operating system whose drivers and software can be updated securely from the cloud.

Snappy updates can be rolled back if something goes wrong – a vital crutch in updating millions of everyday things’
Ubuntu Core on a smart device has the same functions, APIs and security updates as the version running up in the cloud. Developers and inventors would be able build and prototype changes locally, using their own hardware, and then push their work outwards. Smart devices built on the platform will receive security updates automatically.

An open ‘app store’ will allow new features, functionality and hardware capabilities to be built, shared and deployed at any time.

The confined nature of ‘snappy’ updates makes them easily reversible should something go wrong. It doesn’t matter if you’re in charge of updating millions of smart ‘things’ or one very essential device, the chance to minimise the risk of failure is a super attractive pull.

The Snappy Ubuntu Core partner ecosystem launches today with 22 partners already onboard: Ninjablocks Ninjasphere smart hubs; OSRF – ROS robots; Openhab smarthub framework; Erle Robotics’ Erle-Copter; developer boards like Odroid, Beaglebone, Banana Pro, Udoo, PCDuino, Parallella and chip vendors like Allwinner; IoT frameworks and solutions like Kaa, DeviceHive, 2lemetry, IoTSys, Resin.io, OpenSensors.io; interoperability with micro-controller operating systems like Riot-OS; IoT narrow band networking like Nwave; App stores on mobile base stations with Fairwaves; IoT meets Docker with Weave; and environmental tracking robot boats like the Trasibot.

Ubuntu Core devices will requires a 600MHz processor with 128MB RAM and a 4GB flash for factory reset and system rollback. Ubuntu Core itself will only take up 40MB RAM leaving the rest for applications. A small number of boards and chipsets are supported at present, with plans for more to be added as the first stable release nears in April.

Canonical predstavio Snappy Ubuntu Core za Internet of Things.

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Ubuntu Touch aplikacije na Ubuntuu 15.04.

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Mark Shuttleworth o Snappy Ubuntu Coreu.

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The latest big feature landing in Ubuntu's Mir display server by Canonical is server-side platform probing support, which landed just before the weekend.

Server-side platform probing support touched a lot of Mir code and required a lot to get into place. Mir probes the modules in trying to determine if they can drive a given platform, which at least for now is limited to the Android layer with the various Android GPU drivers or otherwise on a conventional Linux system with Mesa drivers, otherwise it falls back to loading a stub platform.

This change also now yields mir-platform-graphics-mesa and mir-platform-graphics-android packages for Ubuntu systems. These new packages contain the shared libraries required for interacting with the hardware platform using Mesa or Android graphics drivers, respectively, and replace the former libmirplatform6driver-mesa and libmirplatform6driver-android packages.

The server-side platform probing for Mir landed on Friday with revision 2254 by Alan Griffiths.
Add server-side platform probing support.

Modules are checked in MIR_SERVER_PLATFORM_PATH, with configuration overrides available to both force a specific module and to check in a specific path.

Modules are probed to determine whether they can drive the available hardware. If a real platform - Android or Mesa - is capable of driving the hardware then it is used; otherwise the stub platform is loaded.

Mir display server dobio server side probing.

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Ubuntu Music Application "stress testing".

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Interaktivni odabir tema na kojima se može sudjelovati kao contributor u Ubuntu Communityju.

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Nvidia na CESu 2015 predstavila Nvidia Drive Px Deep Neural Network Computer Vision, Ubuntu Unity se vidi u prezentaciji, jedan od komentara u videu je "video is not live but the processing is" što bi značilo da Ubuntu odrađuje procesiranje.

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https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/02/02/ ... erry-pi-2/

Snappy Ubuntu Core dostupan za Raspberry Pi 2.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/02/02/ ... lic-cloud/

Fujitsu postao Canonicalov Certified Public Cloud partner.

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Snappy Ubuntu Core dostupan na open source OpenHAB smart home rješenjima.

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Window Management stigao u desktop verziju Unityja 8.