Episode 5:08: Make It Snappy

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 (https://syncthing.net/) to move his markdown files around that he edits using a standard text editor (https://code.visualstudio.com/). 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube (https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace) * 📽️TILvids (https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace) * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace) like you 😍 The history of snap packages Ubuntu's convergence promise (https://web.archive.org/web/20160531204608/https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/820). Click apps (https://click.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) Snappy Ubuntu (https://youtu.be/BlcTDz9ogug) Click apps and Snappy apps share update technology (https://web.archive.org/web/20141209165441/https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1434). Snappy Ubuntu Core was available (https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/ubuntu-15-04-launches-with-support-for-openstack-kilo-new-lxd-hypervisor-and-snappy-core/) Snapcraft was released as version 2.0 (https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.0). Snaps were now available (https://ubuntu.com/blog/snaps-for-classic-ubuntu) to everyone. Mozilla chimed in (https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/04/21/firefox-default-browser-for-linux-users-ubuntu-new-snap-format-coming-soon/) with their support. Snap expanded its compatibility to the likes of Arch (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/06/snap-to-be-universal-linux-package-format) and Fedora (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/IMI5TP2K6A6R7PSIOUBLOE62ENIZDXOA/). xdg-app rebrands as Flatpak (https://flatpak.org/press/2016-06-21-flatpak-released/) as a Snap competitor. Unity 8 and Snaps were expected for 18.04 (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-17.04-Unity-8-Snaps-Talk) The backporting of Snaps to 14.04 (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/install-snap-apps-ubuntu-14-04) was a success. Fedora (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/use-snap-fedora) saw that promised Snap support land. Mark Shuttleworth made a game changing announcement (https://ubuntu.com/blog/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence). An effort (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/gnome-platform-snap-development) to slim down the size of Gnome apps succeeded. The first Snap-installed-by-default shipped (https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/ubuntu-mate-17-10-will-ship-a-snap-by-default/15064) with Ubuntu MATE 17.10. The drumbeat of Snaps-installed-by-default got louder (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2018-February/040126.html). Mozilla authors their own Snap package (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/firefox-snap-package-available). Snap devs finally started their efforts (https://blog.ubuntu.com/2019/03/28/snap-startup-time-improvements) to slim down the startup times. Canonical's announcement (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-chromium-browser-deb-to-snap-transition/11179) that Chromium would switch to a Snap. Linux Mint forges their own path (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3766). Additionally, they blocked (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906) the snapd backend. The dev team speeds startup times further (https://snapcraft.io/blog/snap-speed-improvements-with-new-compression-algorithm). Snaps killed (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Snapcraft-6.0-Coming) their 32-bit support. Mozilla Firefox would now also be snap-only (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/09/ubuntu-makes-firefox-snap-default). The introduction of modularity (https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-future-of-snapcraft). More LZO compression (https://ubuntu.com//blog/kde-snaps-performance-revving-up) Mozilla Firefox improves (https://ubuntu.com//blog