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| 2023-02-22 |
Canonical unifies community editions in shipping Snap support instead of Flatpak |
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Around the same time Flatpak portable packages landed in the Linux ecosystem, Canonical announced their own portable package format, Snaps. The two package formats basically provide the same solution: portable, dependency-bundled packages. Flatpaks have typically focused on desktop software, supporting multiple repositories, and being more cross-platform compatible. Snap packages are more focused on offering both desktop and server packages, are all supplied by one repository run by Canoical, and only run on Linux distributions that use the systemd init implementation. Thus far, Canonical's Ubuntu distribution is one of the few places support for Snap packages have been enabled by default while most of the rest of the Linux community, including Ubuntu community editions, have tended toward supporting Flatpak.
Canonical is working to change this by getting community editions to support Snap packages exclusively out of the box. "As part of our combined efforts, the Ubuntu flavors have made a joint decision to adjust some of the default packages on Ubuntu: Going forward, the Flatpak package as well as the packages to integrate Flatpak into the respective software center will no longer be installed by default in the next release due in April 2023, Lunar Lobster. Users who have used Flatpak will not be affected on upgrade, as flavors are including a special migration that takes this into account. Those who haven’t interacted with Flatpak will be presented with software from the Ubuntu repositories and the Snap Store." |
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