Snap is a new secure, isolated technology designed by Canonical for its Snappy Ubuntu Core operating system, which relies on snapd, the snap-based runtime environment, and Snapcraft, the tool anyone can use to package their applications into a Snap for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and later.
“Distributing applications on Linux is not always easy. You have different packaging formats, base systems, available libraries, and distribution release cadences all of which contribute to the headache. But now we have something much simpler: Snaps,” said Jamie Bennett, Ubuntu Core Engineering Manager at Canonical.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is the first version of the acclaimed operating system to come with out-of-the-box support for the new Snap package format, which C… (read more)
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