Ubuntu Core

[bartmichu]

Hi, has anyone tried j5 with that new Ubuntu Core thingy?

[rwaldron]

Not that I know of, but I also don't know much about it :)

[bartmichu]

It's being positioned as IoT operating system:
http://www.ubuntu.com/things

Apparently it works on BBB and RPi. I'm just trying it out in a virtual machine and I'm not even sure if Node.js is supported :/

[rwaldron]

Cool! Keep posting your progress here :)

cc @julianduque @beriberikix @bryan-m-hughes

[nebrius]

I haven't messed with it myself yet, but I've heard that it's kinda unstable on the RPi 2 at the moment. There is also nebrius/raspi-io#24.

I'm really curious to follow it, though, I think it could be a pretty major boon in terms of the RPi ecosystem.

[beriberikix]

Definitely keep us posted! It looks like the RPi build is not official yet but has some legs. Might need to get me an RPI2 now :)

[rwaldron]

Any updates?

[nebrius]

I still haven't played with it yet. I've had a few people write in curious about other OS'es, but I feel like Arch support is more requested than Ubuntu Core. It's an admittedly very small sample size.

[reconbot]

I'm going to close due to age, "snappy" as it's now called (I think?) still has very light adoption and support isn't really a j5 issue.

[sant123]

It seems now there's support for. nebrius/raspi-i2c#7

[nebrius]

FWIW Ubuntu Core should work with raspi-io, but it's not supported. The only OS that is officially supported by raspi-io still is Raspbian and derivatives from it. While things probably work on Ubuntu Core, I don't test against it during development so it could break at any time.