The company behind the widely-used version of Linux – called Ubuntu – has released a new product aimed at developers who do digital signage ... […]
If Raspberry Pi mini-PCs are part of your digital signage hardware mix – as a vendor, integrator or end-users – you may be intrigued by news that there is now support for the latest version of Android on the low-cost devices. […]
The free, open source digital signage platform, Xibo, is now available as something called a snap – a universal Linux app packaging format. Snaps are described as “containerized software packages designed to work across cloud, desktop, and IoT devices. […]
Guest Post: Rob Côté, Broadsign When it comes to choosing a digital signage player, most network operators will go with a PC running Windows or Linux, but it’s not the only choice out there. Android boxes, Chrome OS, and systems on a chip (Soc) have all come into their own as platforms in recent years. Each has found a following among digital signage network owners and operators. […]
If you missed Canonical‘s webinar yesterday on using Raspberry Pis and Ubuntu Linux for digital signage, you can hit this link and get a replay of the one-hour session. I blabber on for a bit at the start as I host the thing, but the attraction is Viktor Petersson, who runs Screenly, a signage CMS built around the low-cost micro PCs. […]
Posts on doing digital signage projects using low-cost Raspberry Pi single-board PCs continue to generate crazy amounts of traffic on this site, so I continue to take an interest. […]
Ubuntu has long been one of, if not the, go-to variants of the Linux operating system for digital signage media players, but that’s been on “real” x86 computers. Now there’s work underway to pair the new Internet of Things-focused version of the open-source software with Raspberry Pi micro-PCs, and run a digital signage platform off it. […]
If you are a digital signage propellerhead and have been looking at the Intel Compute Stick and thinking about running one with Linux on it, it looks like that won’t work so hot. ZDnet reports that a $110 Ubuntu Linux version of the PC on a stick will go on sale next week, at least in the US, but the specs are far less than those of the Windows Compute Stick. […]
