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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by apexalpha on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:50PM (#14044534)
Snaps have very real advantages for both users and developers. I'm in favour of them!
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by jhasse on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:57PM (#14044598)
Can you name these advantages over Flatpak?
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:11PM (#14047145)
Flatpak is designed for desktop and relies on that environment, snap is designed for both server and desktop use.
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by jhasse on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:14AM (#14048583)
For servers there's docker which works great already. We'll see.
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