Episode Details

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

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