14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical's Kyle Fazzari wrote an interesting article on his blog informing about the latest work done by him and his team of Ubuntu developers at Canonical for the Ubuntu Core operating system.
As many of you already know, Canonical's Ubuntu Core operating system has been designed from the ground up to be used on all sorts of embedded and smart devices, often called Internet of Things.
What's so special about the Ubuntu Core edition of the Ubuntu Linux distribution is that it now uses Canonical's next-generation package manager, called Snappy, replacing the good ol' DPKG (Debian Package Manager) and related tools.
After introducing Snappy and Unity 8's Snappy Scope a while ago, Kyle Fazzari is back with a nice video demonstrating the Ubuntu Core operating system running on top of a Raspberry Pi 2 device enclosed in Canonical's Orange Box, a smart case for it.
"Since then, Canonical has sent me an Orange Matchbox to use, onto which I promptly installed Ubuntu Core. I was really hoping to be able to demo some hardware for you, but neither GPIO or I2C was supported," says Kyle Fazzari.
Support for Raspberry Pi 2's GPIO and I2C arrives
Now, the good news we want to share with you today is that the guys over at Canonical managed to implement support for the I2C communications protocol and General-purpose input/output (GPIO) on the Raspberry Pi 2 device for Ubuntu Core.
Therefore, the Snappy Scope has now extra functionality, such as support for listing installed and stored snaps (.snap packages), as well as support for installing and uninstalling snaps.
In the near future, Mr. Fazzari promises to implement even more awesome features to Unity 8's Snappy Scope, such as the ability to launch installed snaps, and internationalization support. Please enjoy the video below for more details on the matter!
