never heard of it until just stumbled across this: http://betanews.com/2016/06/14/ubuntu-snap-packages-linux-distros-fedora-arc... If its "good", doesn't it sort of defeat the strength of some distro's whose best attribute is package management, i.e. what folks claim of arch? Interesting to see what becomes of it (how much adoption). Stumbled across it, because its Mint 18 time soon!!!!!!! its like x-mas! -tl
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 03:58:26PM -0400, ted leslie via talk wrote:
never heard of it until just stumbled across this:
http://betanews.com/2016/06/14/ubuntu-snap-packages-linux-distros-fedora-arc...
If its "good", doesn't it sort of defeat the strength of some distro's whose best attribute is package management, i.e. what folks claim of arch?
Interesting to see what becomes of it (how much adoption).
Stumbled across it, because its Mint 18 time soon!!!!!!! its like x-mas!
Well the snap containers do sound interesting. It seems to solve the problem of having the right library versions for a given task. Of course I also wonder if this doesn't create the problem of how to update insecure libraries that distributions tried to solve in the first place by only having oen shared copy of a given library to update. Maybe they have some concept of using system libraries for some things. I haven't checked the details that much on it yet. It does seem a bit like trying to create apps for linux systems. The fact that more distributions recently have started to support it does make it potentially interesting, much more so than when only Ubuntu supported it. Maybe it will provide a way to distribute packages that work on multiple distributions, rather like LSB once hoped to do but failed badly at. -- Len Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 03:58:26PM -0400, ted leslie via talk wrote:
never heard of it until just stumbled across this:
http://betanews.com/2016/06/14/ubuntu-snap-packages-linux-distros-fedora-arc...
If its "good", doesn't it sort of defeat the strength of some distro's whose best attribute is package management, i.e. what folks claim of
arch?
Interesting to see what becomes of it (how much adoption).
Stumbled across it, because its Mint 18 time soon!!!!!!! its like x-mas!
Well the snap containers do sound interesting. It seems to solve the problem of having the right library versions for a given task. Of course I also wonder if this doesn't create the problem of how to update insecure libraries that distributions tried to solve in the first place by only having oen shared copy of a given library to update. Maybe they have some concept of using system libraries for some things. I haven't checked the details that much on it yet.
As long as you don't get your information from the press release: https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/06/16/on-snappy-and-flatpak-business-as-u...
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 04:54:30PM -0400, Michael Hill via talk wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
Well the snap containers do sound interesting. It seems to solve the problem of having the right library versions for a given task. Of course I also wonder if this doesn't create the problem of how to update insecure libraries that distributions tried to solve in the first place by only having oen shared copy of a given library to update. Maybe they have some concept of using system libraries for some things. I haven't checked the details that much on it yet.
As long as you don't get your information from the press release:
https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/06/16/on-snappy-and-flatpak-business-as-u...
Yeah that pretty much matches what I thought was the state of things. -- Len Sorensen
On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:36:37 -0400 Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 04:54:30PM -0400, Michael Hill via talk wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
Well the snap containers do sound interesting. It seems to solve the problem of having the right library versions for a given task. Of course I also wonder if this doesn't create the problem of how to update insecure libraries that distributions tried to solve in the first place by only having oen shared copy of a given library to update. Maybe they have some concept of using system libraries for some things. I haven't checked the details that much on it yet. As long as you don't get your information from the press release:
https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/06/16/on-snappy-and-flatpak-business-as-u... Yeah that pretty much matches what I thought was the state of things.
Snappy, nice name sounds like a name for App's and rhymes with Happy, Clappy, Nappy, Pappy and Crappy Other container application management like Applmage, FaltPak/xdg etc all have boring names.. even though, imho, http://appimage.org/ is philosophically the best of the lot :) Linux (press?) is becoming sooo gentrified
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