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Snap become Universal packages for Linux Distributions

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Fettoosh ·
In the article it says
Quoting:"Mark Shuttleworth made a big revolution on Linux environment by implementing Snap package manager as a Universal package manager. I had a surprise when reading about it on Ubuntu insight blog, wow what a fantastic improvement on the Linux environment."


That is no revolution by Shuttleworth, it's an old idea became new. It was called Klix

Read comments here

It disappeared and came back as appimage and Linus Torvalds said: "This is just very cool."

CFWhitman ·
Other projects worth mentioning are Zero Install and Listaller.
hughesjr ·
In Shuttleworth;'s dreams. Then he could start demanding payment from all Linux users and not just hosting providers. See this tweet for context:

@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS/PCI/PCC/SD. If not, prohibition to use the mark "Ubuntu" on our website. Tweet

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