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On Snappy and Flatpak

• liw 10y ago
  As a Debian developer I was greatly surprised when I read on Ars Technica that Debian had chosen to support snaps.
• gmazza 10y ago
  > 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.
• Chyzwar 10y ago
  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.
  • JoshTriplett 10y ago
    > I cannot even google this Flatpack thing. "flatpak", without the 'c'. Also formerly known as "xdg-app".