Episode 5:08: Make It Snappy

Linux User Space — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 06:00:00 -0400

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.

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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.

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