Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical’s vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.
Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical’s vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.
Snap absolutely matters in server deployments FYI. Its advantages are pretty clear in that space, and arguably more suited to it.
The only reason I can think of to use a Snap is that you’re using Ubuntu, and some package you expected to be available through apt is now only available as a Snap. The better solution is to not use Ubuntu, and rely on Docker or Podman to get anything not available as a system package.
They do? Why?
Oh, that’s interesting. And from what I know about Flatpak, I can see issues there.
…If snap (and base Ubuntu) basically diverge to, and specialize in, server usage, that seems fine.