Canonical and Ubuntu have recently announced a collaboration with major Free Software organizations to creating a version of the universal snap packagesIn other words, snap packages can work on any Gnu / Linux distribution.
Thus, the intention of this is that the software that resides in snap packages can be installed on any Gnu / Linux distribution, regardless of whether you use rpm packages or deb packages. Among the organizations that are supporting this initiative are The Document Foundation, Krita, Mycroft, OpenWRT, Dell, Samsung, the Linux Foundation, Debian, Arch Linux, etc... Snap packages use the container system, which makes them a program we can update it without having to rewrite all the code and also that the update does not spoil the user's configuration or the operation of other types of software. Another of the virtues of snap packages is that their development is faster, something that developers are liking and is causing many to abandon the development of deb packages for this type of development.
Snap packages coming to Debian and Fedora
There are many distributions that are interested in this type of package, so much so that from Ubuntu they assure that once the transition is completed, snap packages will be on most computers, servers and IoT hardware, a large market that currently does not have the most up-to-date packages.
The advantages of snap are many and Ubuntu is showing it little by little, but the most interesting thing is that finally all Gnu / Linux distributions and software will be unified under the same type of package It will not depend on the platform used. In any case, in this website You can find more information about how the project goes. This will be a great strength for the free operating system compared to other more proprietary operating systems, but it will also mean that Canonical's Convergence can reach other distributions.
The truth is that the news is very important, positive news for lovers of Free Software, but also seems quite utopian. I do not know to what extent the development teams of other distributions will take snap packages as standard packages, now it seems that these packages are here to stay Do not you think?
Very good news
I want to clarify something, that news was pure ubuntu marketing. Both redhat and fedora have no interest in snap. Also flatpak is already available for all distributions. I only know that debian has snap in sid, but no distro has spoken in favor of snap. This news is crazy because mark has made a very strong marketing move, something that I had not seen in my life. I highly doubt that everyone uses snap, since all snap will go through the ubuntu store, and ubuntu wants to become something similar to google store in all distros.
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I have read the news in pages in English and they do not say that everything is unified. They simply say that Snap packages can be used by all distributions and that there will be no incompatibilities. Which is an advantage, having something that works both in OpenSuse, as in Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu, or whatever. Linux's problem is fragmentation and sometimes incompatibility between different distributions.
Oh and, as one of the comments in English said, what is the problem? It seems that if they take something out, which is optional, although it may be a good solution there are always people fuming and arguing.
Yes !!! Good! If this is true, it will be a great step for GNU / Linux, excellent
Personally, I do not know if it is good, the truth is that since Ubuntu began to work with SNAP packages, something changed, but from my experience it changed for the worse, I think this change comes with a fine print in the background, and that is that Canonical wants to become the Microsoft from Linux, one of the things that I value since I switched from Windows to Linux was freedom and with Snap I see that freedom is being limited ...
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