Canonical published a new maintenance release of Snapd, the main component of its Snappy technologies that enable Linux-based operating systems to support universal Snap apps, over the weekend, bringing support for latest proprietary Nvidia drivers.
Snapd 2.32.2 is now available to download and should be coming soon to the stable software repositories of your favorite, Snappy-enabled GNU/Linux distribution. What’s exciting about this release is that it enables Snappy the use Nvidia’s most recent proprietary graphics drivers in Snap apps on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and similar operating systems.
We talked with Martin Wimpress, who explained to us the change saying “The Nvidia 390 drivers, recently added to [Ubuntu] 18.04, have a very different layout than previous Nvidia drivers. So the confinement rules needed modification. Distros other than Debian and Ubuntu will install these drivers in … (read more)
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