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Ubuntu Core 18 Released for IoT devices (ubuntu.com)

Posted by msmash on from the for-the-record dept.

Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu Core 18 "for secure, reliable IoT devices." The Canonical blog notes that "Immutable, digitally signed snaps ensure that devices built with Ubuntu Core are resistant to corruption or tampering. Any component can be verified at any time." In addition, "The attack surface of Ubuntu Core has been minimized, with very few packages installed in the base OS, reducing the size and frequency of security updates and providing more storage for applications and data." Ubuntu Core also "enables a new class of app-centric things, which can inherit apps from the broader Ubuntu and Snapcraft ecosystems or build unique and exclusive applications that are specific to a brand or model." You can download it from here.

11 comments

  1. newly discovered less to update by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    but kind sir "every extra code package is a unique, with bounties of benefit, to be cared for, nurtured and cherished - like a snowflake. And with snowflakes, delicate with a short lifespan - so easily broken and abandoned."

    1. Re:newly discovered less to update by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      but kind sir "every extra code package is a unique, with bounties of benefit, to be cared for, nurtured and cherished - like a snowflake. And with snowflakes, delicate with a short lifespan - so easily broken and abandoned."

      maybe you can also tell us more about the essential wetness of water, the inexorable pull of gravity, and the always forward motion of time

  2. online account required? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    and you upload the keys to the castle to them? how fucking secure is that? idc how 'secure' the actual os is, we're also relying on their public-facing login server security as well. might as well run windows, ffs.

    1. Re:online account required? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      You upload your public keys to then sync them to your IOT devices. You login with your private keys.

    2. Re:online account required? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I upload my peen up creimer's pooper.

  3. Not really for IoT by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 2

    I took a quick peak at their offering and surprise, it's a Behemoth. Weighing in at around 250MB, it's IoT target can only be things that contain SBCs (single board computers).

    Oh and yes, it includes Systemd.

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    Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
    1. Re:Not really for IoT by pnutjam · · Score: 1

      I'm not seeing any serial version of this.

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      Cheap storage VM.
    2. Re:Not really for IoT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Another example of Ubuntu, a desktop oriented distro, being shoehorned into somewhere it has no business. I am ambivalent to IoT as a concept but if I were making one I would want the most stripped down OS I could get. That would mean lower power drawn, smaller foot print, more of the resources actually going to its intended function.

      Ubuntu really is becoming the windows of the Linux world. Bloated, pushes stuff that nobody wanted. They even emulate Microsoft's attempt to break into new markets and fail horribly.

  4. Ubuntu needs some QA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ubuntu 18 seems like it's the Duplo Blocks of OSs -- (at least the filemanager has missing features) -- it also no longer works with Windows fileshares that I had (in a samba running VM) -- rubber-banding of files isn't available in list-view -- right-click, create-file isn't present

    Ubuntu 16 is ok except the file-manager which had bugs like (right-click-file-properties==>giving an unlimited stream of random numbers on some folders) -- calendar - [go to today] button doesn't work if uptime of the calendar program is >24 hours -- calculator is a singleton program for no good reason (I want 2 on-screen calculators) and it doesn't have a +- sign-change button

    Ubuntu does work nice for VMs, but I am hoping they can fix these small issues so that I can gain trust in their coding ability in other areas like security (if you can't get the simple stuff to work...)

  5. Not very IoTy by scdeimos · · Score: 1

    I don't see an AVR release anywhere. I guess IoT means ARM or x64 now.

  6. Title should be: Shuttleworth chases newest fad. by rahvin112 · · Score: 1

    The title of this should be "Shuttleworth Chases Newest Fad".

    Almost every year without fail Shuttleworth sits down looks at the current technology market and chases whatever newest fad he can find. Remember when everything was touch screen, or how about every computer was going to be a tablet or phone?

    You can literally go back every single year for the past 10 years and he comes up with some new grand redesign of the PC market and throws the company at it until the next years fad. This "chase every fad" model of business means Ubuntu remains and will always remain constantly changing in bad ways and constantly reinventing the wheel.

    They should hold an annual contest on what new fad Shuttleworth will send Ubuntu chasing.