snap umake?

[Liam Proven]

On 26 October 2017 at 16:22, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd never heard of snap until today.  it's a sort light package manager?

No.

There's a new thing happening in Linux recently: containerised apps in
distr-neutral distribution formats.

Containers as in Docker, LXC, Ubuntu's LXD, etc.

Red Hat's format is Flatpak:

http://flatpak.org/faq.html

Ubuntu's is Snappy:

https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/snappy

A 3rd party one is AppImage:

https://appimage.org/

There may be a mini war and one winner, or they all might persist.

But since mainline Ubuntu has switched to GNOME, and Flatpak is the
GNOME format, it does put Ubuntu in a difficult position...

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