On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Max Linke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/06/16/on-snappy-and-flatpak-business-as-usual-in-the-canonical-propaganda-department/
>
> A good post giving a little bit of context for the actual snapy adoption by
> other distributions. The pres release from canonical is a bit over
> enthusiastic about adoption, security and how well received snapy is by
> others.

Isn't the point of a press release to oversell something?

I'd take this article with a grain of salt - or even a few grains.

The first that I heard of snaps being available on non-Ubuntu systems
was on the fedora-devel@ list where the poster floated the idea of
banning snapd because it might get a first-to-market advantage over
flatpak, a more or less similar Red Hat and Gnome technology.

It's interesting (and depressing) to see otherwise rational people
lose the plot like this, just like many did regarding systemd or many
are here in the UK regarding Brexit.

Ubuntu/Canonical (UC) created its own system for installing
self-contained apps a-la Android and iOS. AIUI, these apps are
confined on Ubuntu using AppArmor.

According to Mark Shuttleworth, non-Ubuntu developers asked whether
patches would be accepted to port snaps to other distros. So some
work's been done and it's resulted in the press release and all this
brouhaha.