Re: [riot-devel] Why RIOT is partner of Ubuntu? (technical cosequences?)

2015-01-26 Thread Ludwig Ortmann
Hi Jan, Your fears are entirely ungrounded :) First of all, there are no concrete plans or even arrangements as of now. From our point of view, RIOT lacks human interfaces (among other things), and if Ubuntu snappy apps turn out to be a fitting front end, we will probably support it, but not

Re: [riot-devel] Why RIOT is partner of Ubuntu? (technical cosequences?)

2015-01-26 Thread Emmanuel Baccelli
Hi Jan, As far as I understood it, Ubuntu contacted us because they were looking for expertise on how to communicate with embedded devices which cannot run Linux. A low-overhead solution that we suggested for their problem is: RIOT (and its network stack) runs simultaneously on IoT devices, and