• 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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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
• Thunderbird
• Another Exploit
• And another?
• Better Cross Distro Support

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1. The origins of the shirts
2. Ubuntu's history
3. And some thoughts on 22.04

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Audio Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:30 The Origin of the Shirts
6:43 Lubuntu's in the Backporting Biz
9:45 Ubuntu's History
11:30 2004
17:01 2005
20:11 2006
24:01 2007
29:55 2008
36:39 2009
40:16 2010
47:52 2011
55:05 2012
1:02:35 2013
1:10:03 2014
1:15:00 2015
1:20:19 2016
1:25:26 2017
1:28:49 2018
1:31:17 2019
1:33:49 2020
1:35:55 2021
1:37:19 2022
1:39:43 A Couple Thoughts on Ubuntu
1:48:13 A New Distro, and a Thanks!
1:50:26 Stinger

Banter

• Dan's Shirt
• Leo's Shirt
• Lubuntu Backports are coming!

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Ubuntu The Saga

Some fast links:

• Main Web Page
• Ubuntu Forums
• AskUbuntu
• Ubuntu Discourse
• Launchpad
• Official Flavours
• Wiki

There are way too many links to get them all!

We gathered a great deal from the official Ubuntu Blog

• The Inception
• Bug #1
• October 20, 2004 Warty Warthog 4.10 was the first release.
• Shipit came about the same time
• Hoary Hedgehog, 5.04, is released adding KDE and the Kubuntu flavor.
• Ubuntu Foundation is Created
• Warty's 18 months are up
• Dapper Drake, 6.06, is released. To date the only release that was late. Also, Xubuntu joined the family with the Xfce desktop.
• Scott James Remnant dubbed it the Late To Ship release
• Edgy Eft, 6.10 is released, now with more Upstart
• Launch Pad 1.0 Beta released
• Dell offers Ubuntu 7.04 on select devices in the US
• first release of Ubuntu Studio
• Gutsy Gibbon, 7.10 Desktop, is released. Mythubuntu and Gobuntu appear here.
• Launchpad is released
• System76 joined the fray
• Landscape, system management and monitoring tools for Ubuntu, launches
• Hardy Heron, 8.04 LTS, released for Desktop. Wubi is also released.
• Gobuntu has been made redundant
• Launchpad 2.0 released
• Canonical open sources Launchpad
• Karmic Koala, 9.10, is relased and so is Ubuntu One
• Lucid Lynx, 10.04, released and the first hints of Lubuntu, though not official yet.
• Unity announced
• Ubuntu and Canonical sites get a facelift. See it here
• Canonical announces Ubuntu Advantage
• Unity shows lots of improvement, but it's NOT A DOCK! (See it in action)
• Quitter talk - Blog post
• Shipit comes to an end
• Oneiric Ocelot, 11.10, is released. and Lubuntu becomes official.
• The HUD is introduced.
• Precise Pangolin, 12.04, is released. Includes the Heads Up Display
• Favorable reviews of Ubuntu as a whole, but also Unity
• The traditional installer/live CD is dead.
• Ubuntu comes to the phone
• Raring Ringtail, 13.04, is released.
  • focus on mobile ahead of the 14.04 release
  • Wubi has unresolved bugs
  • Ubuntu Kylin was born
• Ubuntu Edge Announced.
• Edge fails to meet its goal
• Ubuntu Kylin hits 1.3m downloads
• Ubuntu One's file services are being shut down
• Ubuntu Mate Remix is announced
• Mark Shuttleworth announces "Snappy Ubuntu"
• The BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu edition is available
• "Snappy Ubuntu Core" on Raspberry Pi 2
• Vivid Vervet 15.04, is released.
  • Ubuntu MATE, nearly called Mubuntu, gets its first "official flavor" release
• Snapcraft is announced and Snappy Apps are being called Snaps now
• ZFS is coming to Ubuntu
• Acknowledgement that Snaps don't quite look right a lot of times.
• Mark Shuttleworth announces that Ubuntu's Unity experiement has failed and Gnome, not Unity8 will be the default session in Ubuntu 18.04. This also marks the end of Ubuntu Phone.
• The next day, however, Marius Gripsgard of UBPorts stepped up to take the reins.
• Zesty Zappus, 17.04, is released. and with it Ubuntu Budgie becomes an official flavor.
• Ubuntu 16.04 shows up in the Windows Store, for the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
• Canonical joins the Gnome Foundation Advisory Board ahead of the 18.04 release.
• Bionic Beaver, 18.04, is released. and Gnome is the default DE again.
• Bryan Quigley, looks to drop 32-bit hardware support
• Cosmic Cuttlefish, 18.10, is released.
  • 32-bit support is now in consideration to be removed, so upgrades from 18.04 are forbidden on 32-bit installs.
  • Lubuntu Switches to LXQt from LXDE
• Mir 1.0 is released
• Disco Dingo, 19.04, is released. No more 32bit isos, long live 32bit.
• Ubuntu for WSL2
• i386 architecture, or rather 32-bit support, will be dropped
• i386 architecture will not be dropped
• Eoan Ermine 19.10, is released.
  • Experimental ZFS support on installation is available
  • Chromium is snap-only
• Rocco Interviews Mark Shuttleworth on Linux Spotlight
• Ubuntu in Pop Culture
• Focal Fossa, 20.04, is released.
  • Hardware enablement is on by default on the desktop.
  • The Snap Store tags in for Ubuntu Software
• Groovy Gorilla 20.10, is released.
  • Active Directory support gets added to the installer
• Snaps get faster
• Another lurch forward for snap theming.
• The Ubuntu installer is being rewritten in Flutter.
• Impish Indri, 21.10, is released.
  • Firefox follows Chromium and switches from a deb to a snap - Only for main Ubuntu, not the flavors... yet.
• Ubuntu gets their shiny new logo
• Jammy Jellyfish, 22.04, is released.
  • Better Active Directory integration
  • Flavors follow main Ubuntu and switch to the snap of Firefox.
• A big push to improve Firefox snap performance
• The push to improve Firefox continues

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Welcome to the Linux User Space

Linux Mint 20

Linux Mint
Clement Lefebvre
Cinnamon Desktop
Interview 2007
Interview 2013
Ubuntu was never "forked". It was and still is used as a package base and regarded as an upstream component. Why Ubuntu? Because it was (and still is) the best package base.
Basic Distro Details

• Base System - Ubuntu
• Desktop Environment - Cinnamon, MATE, XFCE
• File Manager - Nemo, fork of Nautilus
• Package Manager - APT / DEB
• User Interface - GTK 3
• System & Service Manager - systemd
• Software Manager or Synaptic if your an animal
• Display Manager - LightDM
• Window Manager - Xorg by no Wayland support yet

Release Notes Linux Mint 20 LTS
- Warpinator
- Allows sharing of files across local network
- Originally featured in Linux Mint 6 called "Giver"
- Goal here is to have a simple easy to use out of the box way to transfer files
- NVIDIA Optimus Support Improvements
- Switching between integrated or Dedicated Graphics
- Fully supports the "NVIDIA On Demand" feature
- Right click app from menu and option to launch with NVIDIA
- Tray Updates

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App Focus

Warpinator

This episode's app: Warpinator.

It's timely since we're using Linux Mint, and that's the crucible it was forged in.

It's installed by default in Linux Mint 20, and available... in the AUR. Everyone else will need to compile it from Github at this point.

Warpinator is basically just AirDrop on Mac and iOS, but for Linux.

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