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Coming up in this episode

• Syncing the Notes


• The History of Snaps


• And How Much We Absolutely Adore Them

0:00 Cold Open

1:34 Seeking Syncthing

16:42 The History of Snaps

33:52 How'd 9 Years of Snaps Go?

1:01:54 Next Time

1:04:49 Stinger

The Video Version

https://youtu.be/izDzKkuEyRw

It is all about the notes

• Leo goes back to basics and uses SyncThing to move his markdown files around that he edits using a standard text editor.

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The history of snap packages

• Ubuntu's convergence promise.


• Click apps


• Snappy Ubuntu


• Click apps and Snappy apps share update technology.


• Snappy Ubuntu Core was available


• Snapcraft was released as version 2.0.


• Snaps were now available to everyone.


• Mozilla chimed in with their support.


• Snap expanded its compatibility to the likes of Arch and Fedora.


• xdg-app rebrands as Flatpak as a Snap competitor.


• Unity 8 and Snaps were expected for 18.04


• The backporting of Snaps to 14.04 was a success.


• Fedora saw that promised Snap support land.


• Mark Shuttleworth made a game changing announcement.


• An effort to slim down the size of Gnome apps succeeded.


• The first Snap-installed-by-default shipped with Ubuntu MATE 17.10.


• The drumbeat of Snaps-installed-by-default got louder.


• Mozilla authors their own Snap package.


• Snap devs finally started their efforts to slim down the startup times.


• Canonical's announcement that Chromium would switch to a Snap.


• Linux Mint forges their own path. Additionally, they blocked the snapd backend.


• The dev team speeds startup times further.


• Snaps killed their 32-bit support.


• Mozilla Firefox would now also be snap-only.


• The introduction of modularity.


• More LZO compression


• Mozilla Firefox improves


• Ubuntu Flavors no longer seed the Flatpak backend


• More rumblings about the all snap Ubuntu.


• Those rumblings were squashed.


• Snap compatibility get stronger


• KDE Plasma desktop sees Snap support.


• more drivers are Snapped.


• Some exploits and maybe a few flaws.

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Extra Snap Resources

• Click Apps


• Snappy Ubuntu!


• Snappy security


• It's a Snap


• Ubuntu 15.10 might have a Snappy Personal spin?


• Shortly after, Mozilla said Firefox will support the Snap package format


• Debs aren't going anywhere...


• xdg-portal and snap collab?


• Snap store


• Another Chromium push


• LZO compression time and


• Snapcraft changes


• April - Ubuntu Won't Support Flatpak


• Mozilla's snap pushes back 22.04.1


• Firefox Snap Performance part 1


• Firefox Snap Performance part 2


• 50% reduction in start time for Firefox Snap


• Flapak is out, Snap is still in


• An immutable Snap desktop? and also


• Malicious Snap Apps


• Thunderbird


• Another Exploit


• And another?


• Better Cross Distro Support

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