Snaps & flatpacks

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 at 16:30, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> as does Ubuntu Core since a while ;)
>
> https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-core-gdm-spike-and-a-confined-egmde-user-session/18034
>
> while there are already tons of kiosk systems out there using Ubuntu
> Core, full desktops are in the works since a while but not fully there
> yet ...
>
> thanks to the builtin fleet management that snapd offers, being able to
> manage 10000s of (thin client) desktops centrally as easy as you can
> already manage fleets of IoT devices with the snapd API is quite an
> enterprise use-case we get many requests for, so this will definitely
> come eventually ...

:-)

Yes, I was aware that there was something, but I don't work in the
kiosk/embedded space at all and have not since the mid-1990s.

(I built a small Internet café using a manually-hardened Caldera
OpenLinux setup, with a *total* budget, hardware, software, cabling,
ISDN internet connection, _everything_ -- of under £2000. I was quite
proud of that.)

I am not well-informed about the state of the art in that market today.

I thought Ubuntu did not yet have a containerised full desktop, and I
think you're confirming that.

Like most old Unix hands, I consider it a good idea and probably where
the future will go, but I do not want it myself, thank you. I quite
like having a machine I can customise. :-)


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