9 years ago
2
Canonical Unveils Snappy Ubuntu Core, Targeting the Internet of Things
Canonical on Tuesday unveiled Snappy Ubuntu Core, a new rendition of Ubuntu targeting the Internet of Things. Snappy Ubuntu Core offers a minimal server image with the same libraries as "traditional" Ubuntu, but Snappy apps and Ubuntu Core can be upgraded automatically and rolled back if necessary. Snappy runs on any device with an ARMv7 or Intel x86 processor and at least 256 MB of RAM.
Continue Reading http://www.technewsworld.com
Join the Discussion
It's nice to see such progress..WOnder when this will be applied to our Ubuntu based distros?
Actually, you can download Ubuntu Core and run as a virtual machine on any PC. From Ubuntu:Snappy
"Ubuntu Core is available as a KVM image, a OVA image, and as a Vagrant image for local development on Ubuntu, and as a cloud image on Azure, the Google Compute Engine, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud."