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Ubuntu Core Gets Support For Raspberry Pi 2 GPIO and I2C

Posted by timothy on from the support-is-a-many-splendored-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Ubuntu Core is a tiny Ubuntu distribution aimed at the Internet of Things, using a new transactional packaging format called Snappy rather than the venerable Debian packaging format. It recently gained support for I2C and GPIO on the Raspberry Pi 2, and a quick demo is given here. Ubuntu's Core support site says that the support for Raspberry Pi 2 isn't yet official, but provides some handy tips for anyone who wants to try it out.

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  1. Re: A page full of marketing buzz by Beacon11 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since when did I2C and GPIO become marketing buzz? Judging from the title of the post ("status update") I don't think it was meant to tell you everything about snappy. It linked to an older post with more information, but if you really want to learn about it, you'll need to do some work yourself.

  2. Ubuntu Core has no place on the Raspberry by geek111 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Snappy is Cannical's attempt to get rid of apt because it doesn't work for paid apps. They've abandoned the Ubuntu Software Center (and the developers there) and are now pushing this crap. Whatever claim they make about 'sandboxing' and 'security', the end goal is to monetize apps to phone and tablet users. This might not even be so bad if it worked. But Snappy is not ready for primetime. It is cumbersome and buggy.

    I also question the usefulness of an 'app-store' style package management system to a platform that is geared to education. The Raspberry Pi Platform's strength is in its openness and community support. It's gonna suck to see step 4 in EVERY pi project article be 'Go install Core on your pi, then buy my app'.

    So really who cares if Core/Snappy has GPIO. So does Windows 10 IOT. Having tried both images out, WIndows IOT might actually be more useful than Ubuntu Core on the Pi right now. (At least is runs Node.js)

    I'll take apt or pip (or mercurial or Github for that matter) over Snappy any day.