Episode 5:08: Make It Snappy
Update: 2025-03-10
Description
Coming up in this episode
- Syncing the Notes
- The History of Snaps
- And How Much We Absolutely Adore Them
0:00 Cold Open
1:34 Seeking Syncthing
16:42 The History of Snaps
33:52 How'd 9 Years of Snaps Go?
1:01:54 Next Time
1:04:49 Stinger
The Video Version
https://youtu.be/izDzKkuEyRw
It is all about the notes
- Leo goes back to basics and uses SyncThing to move his markdown files around that he edits using a standard text editor.
📣Announcements📣
This program was made possible by:
The history of snap packages
- Ubuntu's convergence promise.
- Click apps
- Snappy Ubuntu
- Click apps and Snappy apps share update technology.
- Snappy Ubuntu Core was available
- Snapcraft was released as version 2.0.
- Snaps were now available to everyone.
- Mozilla chimed in with their support.
- Snap expanded its compatibility to the likes of Arch and Fedora.
- xdg-app rebrands as Flatpak as a Snap competitor.
- Unity 8 and Snaps were expected for 18.04
- The backporting of Snaps to 14.04 was a success.
- Fedora saw that promised Snap support land.
- Mark Shuttleworth made a game changing announcement.
- An effort to slim down the size of Gnome apps succeeded.
- The first Snap-installed-by-default shipped with Ubuntu MATE 17.10.
- The drumbeat of Snaps-installed-by-default got louder.
- Mozilla authors their own Snap package.
- Snap devs finally started their efforts to slim down the startup times.
- Canonical's announcement that Chromium would switch to a Snap.
- Linux Mint forges their own path. Additionally, they blocked the snapd backend.
- The dev team speeds startup times further.
- Snaps killed their 32-bit support.
- Mozilla Firefox would now also be snap-only.
- The introduction of modularity.
- More LZO compression
- Mozilla Firefox improves
- Ubuntu Flavors no longer seed the Flatpak backend
- More rumblings about the all snap Ubuntu.
- Those rumblings were squashed.
- Snap compatibility get stronger
- KDE Plasma desktop sees Snap support.
- more drivers are Snapped.
- Some exploits and maybe a few flaws.
📣More Announcements📣
- Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy
Extra Snap Resources
- Click Apps
- Snappy Ubuntu!
- Snappy security
- It's a Snap
- Ubuntu 15.10 might have a Snappy Personal spin?
- Shortly after, Mozilla said Firefox will support the Snap package format
- Debs aren't going anywhere...
- xdg-portal and snap collab?
- Snap store
- Another Chromium push
- LZO compression time and
- Snapcraft changes
- April - Ubuntu Won't Support Flatpak
- Mozilla's snap pushes back 22.04.1
- Firefox Snap Performance part 1
- Firefox Snap Performance part 2
- 50% reduction in start time for Firefox Snap
- Flapak is out, Snap is still in
- An immutable Snap desktop? and also
- Malicious Snap Apps
- <a href="https://www.omgubun
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