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On Snappy and Flatpak

by qubit23 on 6/17/16, 12:50 AM with 4 comments

• by liw on 6/17/16, 8:21 AM

  As a Debian developer I was greatly surprised when I read on Ars Technica that Debian had chosen to support snaps.

• by gmazza on 6/17/16, 2:51 PM

    > The press release was issued, I think, sort of as if it
    > came from some sort of independent or cross-vendor project,
    > and there’s the snapcraft.io site to back up that impression,
    > but every Snappy committer is a Canonical employee
  

  That's a pretty old trick. Google pulled exactly the same with Open Handset Alliance few years ago.

• by Chyzwar on 6/19/16, 10:54 PM

  I cannot even google this Flatpack thing.

  Author suggestion to use conferences and "cross-distribution and cross-project collaboration" would end with empty chatter as his blog post.

  Canonical get shit done. Its fulfil a dream were you could make Linux apps without thinking about distribution.