In this podcast, Joe Green is joined by two representatives working at Ubuntu (or Canonical, if you like) on that organization's Ubuntu Core and Ubuntu Mobile Embedded projects. With IoT and its much older sibling, IIoT, ever-present as buzzphrases at the moment alongside 5G, self-driving cars and AI, we get the lowdown on what IoT really means.

From early days of hobbyists knocking together mobile devices and needing an OS to run on them, the Ubuntu flavor of Linux now runs on IoT devices that are found  in installations of every type, all over the world. Modular construction of the software in a series of discrete "snaps" means that the days of having to flash EPROMs to update devices are now a thing of history.

Ubuntu runs a decent wedge of the cloud, why not let it run connected, intelligent devices? If IT is going to embedded in everything over the next few years, better the "FOSS  way" (that's a Roman road joke, btw) than closed systems, for both security's and privacy's sakes, for starters.