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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS To Offer Updates Via Snap Packages

| Date: April 13, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: linux, snap, snappy, ubuntu, Xenial Xerus


Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will allow installing snap packages along traditional deb packages, announced Olli Ries, SW Engineering Ubuntu Client Director at Canonical.

Ubuntu Desktop To Eventually Switch To Snap Packages By Default

| Date: April 23, 2015 | View Comments | Tags: linux, packages, snappy, ubuntu

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Ubuntu Desktop will eventually switch to "snap" packages by default, while continuing to provide deb-based images as an alternative, at least for a while. I'm sure this doesn't come as a surprise for some of you, but further details regarding this have been revealed today.

Canonical Announces Snappy Ubuntu Core, A Transactionally Updated Flavor For The Cloud

| Date: December 10, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: cloud, linux, server, snappy, ubuntu

Canonical announced "snappy" Ubuntu Core yesterday, a new cloud-optimized Ubuntu edition that uses transactional updates.

Transmageddon 1.0, Snappy Player 1.0 Available In PPA [Ubuntu 14.04]

| Date: April 02, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: gstreamer, linux, snappy, transcoder, transmageddon, ubuntu, video, video player

Quick update for Ubuntu 14.04 users: Transmageddon 1.0 and Snappy 1.0, both released recently, are available in the main WebUpd8 PPA.

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