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by popey 8y ago
No. Snap is not a proprietary format at all. It's a squashfs file with a small amount of metadata. You can make a snap by plopping a file in a folder, add a simple snap.yaml which describes the application and then "make" a s
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by popey 8y ago
Because the same snap can run on releases of Ubuntu all the way back to 14.04. 14.04 has VLC 2.1 in the repo. 16.04 LTS has VLC 2.2. The snap store has 3.0.1 in the stable channel, with 4.0 (dev release) in the edge channel. Versions that w
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by popey 8y ago
You can. The store used to default to "Proprietary" if the developer didn't set it. Now we default to "Unknown" if not specified by the developer.
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by popey 9y ago
Yeah, that bug is being fixed and working through the release process right now.
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by popey 9y ago
snap install slack-term ;)
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by popey 9y ago
Not any more.
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by popey 9y ago
That was a bug, it was fixed just before Christmas.
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by popey 9y ago
This is rather neat. Sorry to be that guy, but any plans to support Linux too?
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by popey 9y ago
This is so handy. I pushed it to the snap store. So if you're on a snap supported Linux distro you can just run "snap install wormhole" to get it and future updates.
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by popey 9y ago
They're certainly easier to create than debs. For many applications a single yaml file is all that's needed. Snapcraft can use whatever build system the app needs, and produce a snap which can be locally installed, shared privatel
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What to Expect (and Not Expect) from Linux Universal Packages(thenewstack.io)
2 points by popey 9y ago|0 comments
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Building Apps for Linux Without Linux(popey.com)
3 points by popey 9y ago|1 comments
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Build and Release Linux Applications on Windows(youtube.com)
3 points by popey 9y ago|0 comments
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by popey 9y ago
Just a minor point but uappexplorer is a community maintained site which uses the snap store API to present apps in the store. It's open source, hosted on github and I'm sure they'd welcome contributors to help improve the lo
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Snaps and snapcraft.io explained in 3 minutes(youtube.com)
5 points by popey 10y ago|0 comments
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Anbox – Android in a Box(mm.gravedo.de)
317 points by popey 10y ago|62 comments
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Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence(insights.ubuntu.com)
756 points by popey 10y ago|457 comments
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by popey 10y ago
Pulse has more features, but sits atop alsa. So it's not generally one or the other as pulse still needs alsa underneath. I don't have any docs on which is 'better' but a quick search reveals a lot of opinion on the matt
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by popey 10y ago
You could use pacmd to gather the list of microphones and monitors. ffmpeg supports "-f pulse" in place of your "-f alsa".
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Basic management of an Ubuntu Core installation(lieberbiber.de)
3 points by popey 10y ago|0 comments
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Setting up an “All-Snap” Ubuntu Core image in a QEMU/KVM virtual machine(lieberbiber.de)
4 points by popey 10y ago|0 comments
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OpenHAB arrives as a Snap(insights.ubuntu.com)
3 points by popey 10y ago|0 comments
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by popey 10y ago
Nice article. Any particular reason you built curl from source rather than pull the deb from the archive with "stage-packages: curl" ?
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100% Funding Opportunity for 'Space Enabled' IoT Serivces(artes-apps.esa.int)
1 points by popey 10y ago|0 comments
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Give Me a MySQL and Make It Snappy(mysqlrelease.com)
19 points by popey 10y ago|1 comments
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by popey 10y ago
It's a bit academic right now as there are no Ubuntu phones on sale, but yes, that would be a great page to make.
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by popey 10y ago
Indeed. I wrote that before there was a backup tool built into Ubuntu Phone. I saw a demo of the backup tool a few months back, but don't know if it landed yet.
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by popey 10y ago
In lieu of such a tool, I wrote a crappy shell script to backup my Ubuntu Phones. :) https://github.com/popey/buds
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Taking a stand against unofficial Ubuntu images(insights.ubuntu.com)
10 points by popey 10y ago|1 comments
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Ubuntu Core 16 Release Candidate 2 (with Pi and more)(lists.snapcraft.io)
3 points by popey 10y ago|0 comments

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