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Just like with Upstart (which existed well before systemd did), Snap existed before Flatpak, and in fact existed in another form (Click) for two years before th
by berkut 6y ago
Just like with Upstart (which existed well before systemd did), Snap existed before Flatpak, and in fact existed in another form (Click) for two years before that.
So it's wrong to say Canonical is guilty of NIH-syndrome with these two items, when their versions were out first.
Whether the tech is any good is another matter.
- the_why_of_y 6y agoYou might as well say FlatPak existed in another form since 2007, considering https://people.gnome.org/~alexl/glick/ https://people.gnome.org/~alexl/glick/ https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2018/06/20/flatpak-a-history/ https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2018/06/20/flatpak-a-history/ According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(package_manager) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(package_manager), Snap was publicly revealed on 9 December 2014, whereas the design of xdg-app (FlatPak's old name) was already discussed publicly at GUADEC 2013. https://www.superlectures.com/guadec2013/sandboxed-applications-for-gnome https://www.superlectures.com/guadec2013/sandboxed-applicati...