The History of Ubuntu's Snap Packages

Описание: All the history you ever wanted to know about Ubuntu's Snap packages, how they're related to earlier Snappy and Click apps, and what the original intent of it all really was!

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From the episode "Make It Snappy"
   • Make It Snappy (Season 5, Episode 8)  

The History of Snap Packages
Ubuntu's convergence promise
https://web.archive.org/web/201605312...
Click apps
https://click.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Snappy Ubuntu
   • Introducing snappy Ubuntu Core  
Click apps and Snappy apps share update technology
https://web.archive.org/web/201412091...
Snappy Ubuntu Core was available
https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/ubu...
Snapcraft was released as version 2.0
https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+mile...
Snaps were now available to everyone
https://ubuntu.com/blog/snaps-for-cla...
Mozilla chimed in with their support
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleas...
Snap expanded its compatibility to the likes of Arch and Fedora
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/06/s...
xdg-app rebrands as Flatpak as a Snap competitor
https://flatpak.org/press/2016-06-21-...
Unity 8 and Snaps were expected for 18.04
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-...
The backporting of Snaps to 14.04 was a success
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/i...
Fedora saw that promised Snap support land
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/u...
Mark Shuttleworth made a game changing announcement
https://ubuntu.com/blog/growing-ubunt...
An effort to slim down the size of Gnome apps succeeded
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/g...
The first Snap-installed-by-default shipped with Ubuntu MATE 17.10
https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/ubunt...
The drumbeat of Snaps-installed-by-default got louder
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubu...
Mozilla authors their own Snap package
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/f...
Snap devs finally started their efforts to slim down the startup times
https://blog.ubuntu.com/2019/03/28/sn...
Canonical's announcement that Chromium would switch to a Snap
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-f...
Linux Mint forges their own path. Additionally, they blocked the snapd backend
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906
The dev team speeds startup times further
https://snapcraft.io/blog/snap-speed-...
Snaps killed their 32-bit support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Snapcra...
Mozilla Firefox would now also be snap-only
https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-are-we-i...
The introduction of modularity
https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-future-o...
More LZO compression
https://ubuntu.com//blog/kde-snaps-pe...
Mozilla Firefox improves
https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-are-we-i...
Ubuntu Flavors no longer seed the Flatpak backend
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-...
More rumblings about the all snap Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/i...
Those rumblings were squashed
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/u...

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