Episode 5:08: Make It Snappy

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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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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