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by zyga 5mo ago
snaps work on anything that has systemd so I don't quite know where you got the idea is that it is mostly limited to ubuntu.
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by zyga 7mo ago
There are several reasons but at some point we can use user namespaces to remove them. I'm not particularly a HN person so I won't go into details but it's possible to drop the setuid bits sooner rather than later.
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by zyga 6y ago
It's still work in progress but snaps genuinely make packaging easier. There are rough edges, especially on the desktop, but those are all being worked on, in collaboration with flatpak actually. It will take a while but in the future
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by zyga 6y ago
IIRC GNOME removed support for snaps from gnome-software so this was the only way forward.
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by zyga 8y ago
It will be on the next reboot/login. Due to some bugs setting up PATH is hard (harder than other variables and much harder than it should be) so we did the best we could (require a logout/reboot)
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by zyga 8y ago
Your knowledge is incorrect. Snaps don't have to be statically linked. They use a mount namespace with a predictable set of libraries that are maintained and receive security updates. In addition the application can bring additional li
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by zyga 8y ago
It's not a crazy idea, just one that entirely limits the target audience to extremely technical people. Some people would like to make their software available to a wider audience.
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by zyga 8y ago
With my upstream developer hat and Ubuntu developer for about a decade hat on I really call BS on this. This is very hard in practice. It's hard even when you know things very well just because it is very complex and involves multiple
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by zyga 9y ago
Hey there. In snapd (which is implemented in mostly go) we have this problem a lot. The real issue is that certain system calls fail if more than one thread exists in the calling process. One of those is setns(2), as is documented in the ma
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Snapd 2.23 available for OpenSUSE(build.opensuse.org)
4 points by zyga 10y ago|0 comments
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Snap store issues(new.zygoon.pl)
1 points by zyga 10y ago|0 comments
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Snapd on CentOS 7(new.zygoon.pl)
3 points by zyga 10y ago|0 comments
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Live Coding: zyga hacking live on camera, python / QML(youtube.com)
1 points by zyga 12y ago|0 comments
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Live Coding: zyga hacking on checkbox, live on camera, python / QML(youtube.com)
1 points by zyga 12y ago|0 comments
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Bazaar forked for a python3 port(plus.google.com)
1 points by zyga 13y ago|0 comments