Today, June 14, 2016, Canonical informed us that they’ve been working for some time with developers from various major GNU/Linux distributions to make the Snap package format universal for all OSes.
As many of you who are using Ubuntu might know already, Snap is a secure, easy to install, and confined package format that lets developers distribute the latest versions of their software applications as soon as they’re out. For Ubuntu, it is an alternative packaging format for Debian’s .deb binary packages.
Snap is an innovation from Canonical created specifically for the Snappy technology used in Snappy Ubuntu Core, a slimmed-down version of Ubuntu designed from the ground up to be deployed on various embedded and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. Starting with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), Canonical launched the Snap packages for the desktop and server too.
“Developers from multiple Linux distributions and companies today announced collaboration on the “snap” un… (read more)
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