Some issues with the BeagleBone Black have been fixed

Jul 29, 2015 12:51 GMT  ·  By

A second Snappy Ubuntu Core 15.04 iteration has been released by Canonical, and the new version comes with a reworked boot logic for BeagleBone Black, among other features.

Snappy Ubuntu Core is a new operating system from Canonical that uses transactional updates, and that is built for the Internet of Things infrastructure. It's also an amazing OS that can be installed on embedded devices like the BeagleBone Black or Raspberry Pi 2. The fact that a second stable version is released for the 15.04 cycle is interesting in itself if we keep in mind that no other flavor in the Ubuntu family does this.

This new Ubuntu iteration for IoT and embedded devices is already gathering quite a following and developers from all over the world had started to adopt it, even before it reached a stable version. From the looks of it, Canonical is making a big effort to keep this updated, and it's not willing to wait for the launch 15.10 to make the necessary adjustments.

New Snappy Ubuntu Core 15.04 is here

"Special attention for BeagleBone Black users: since we can't yet update the bootloader during our snappy update process (planned in our backlog), we recommend you to do a clean flash with the latest image, since it incorporates a new u-boot and also a new way to set/save the environment variables used by Snappy. If you are using the previous stable version, the bad side effect is that rollback might eventually fail (as a result of a file system corruption issue)," said Canonical's Ricardo Salveti de Araujo in the mailing list.

According to the changelog, a proper fix for the spurious "permission denied" errors after updates has been implemented, a rootdelay is now also used when mounting the writable partition, the rollback is now using the correct kernel binary when the last update provided a kernel update, and the origins for frameworks and oem packages are now tracked after the installation.

You can find the Snappy Ubuntu Core images in the regular download place on Canonical's servers.