The Canonical Snappy team was pleased to announce over the weekend that Ubuntu Core 16 entered the freeze phase, which means that they already have everything they need to include the most important functions to the 16 series images and that in the coming weeks only functions to polish and improve the stability of the system will be added. In other words, they no longer accept new packages or changes if a serious problem is not discovered.
Among the novelties that will come to Snappy Ubuntu Core 16 we have configuration support, rich snap anchor mechanism, improvements in startup management, support for gadgets for cloud-init configuration, support for device registration, affirmation improvements, configuration of unattended user, improved console configuration and images via ubuntu-image. Canonical wants to make clear the majority of the above enhancements are not exclusive to Ubuntu Core and that will reach all the classic Linux distributions that support snapD.
Ubuntu Core 16 images are available for 32-bit and 64-bit PCs
The images are now available for PC (amd64, i386) from this link. Soon they will also be available for Raspberry Pi 2, Raspberry Pi 3 and Dragonboard boards.
In order to use these images, it will be necessary to extract them with a command as shown in the following example:
xzcat ubuntu-core-16-amd64-beta3.img.xz > ubuntu-core-16-amd64-beta3.img
Images are bootable, which means that can start directly from qemu-sq.m or in Virtualbox. When running the images in qemu-sq.m the function is worth using -redire de qemu-sq.m as in the following example:
kvm -m 1500 -redir tcp:10022::22 -redir tcp:14200::4200 ubuntu-core-16-amd64-beta3.img
After starting the image, you can enter the Ubuntu One email, at which time a user will be automatically created with the corresponding ssh keys. Those who do not have an Ubuntu SSO account can create it on the web login.ubuntu.com.
Learn more | insights.ubuntu.com.