Strong support for Snap and Ubuntu Core as Canonical meet IRL
, one of the core architects of the system, titled:"An Ubuntu for a 10 ton steel press and your window shades: UbuntuCore at a glance.". When the phone project proved"not to be commercially viable", the company looked at moving some tech from the phone project into its nascent Ubuntu Core distribution, its play for the internet of things market, aimed at being"fail-safe, tinker-proof and reliable at a higher level.
This means that while Snap only appeared as a standard part of Ubuntu 15.04, this was already over a year down the line: it predates its cross-platform packaging rival Flatpak. Grawert told us that the Ubuntu Phone developers evaluated Flatpak and its forerunnerGrawert's talk outlined some of the core features that Snap offers: packages are a single compressed file, using the existingformat, which is then GPG signed.
As Grawert put it,"PPAs give an unknown third party root access to your OS." You can't be sure of the intentions of whoever maintains a PPA, and merely by publishing an ostensibly newer version of an existing package, the next software update will install it, whatever it is, whether it includesAnd although there is still only one official Snap store, it is possible to host them elsewhere.
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